Typewriter
@allknowing (153544)
India
October 31, 2023 7:08pm CST
I was very good at typing with a pretty good speed. It was at a time when there were no computers.
Compared to computers typing was more difficult as there were no ready made methods to correct errors. We had to use some white stuff to block the errors or type the whole thing once again
I do not think I will be able to type on a typewriter after getting used to the light and smooth keyboard of the computer.
Did you learn to type?
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
1 Nov 23
I learned to type , but was never very fast at it.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Nov 23
I think one gets speed if there is a lot of typing involved.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
1 Nov 23
I had used the old typewriter. As you said, it's very inconvenient if you made an error. But if you use the IMB electric typewriter, correction was easy.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Nov 23
I had one electronic typwriter and you are right and there we could save what we typed. But I was talking of the manual typewriter.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
1 Nov 23
@allknowing I know. I've used the manual typewriter too.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
2 Nov 23
My mobile has a keypad too and I prefer that to a touh system.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Nov 23
@allknowing The touch screen keys drives me nuts 
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@spiderdust (14756)
• San Jose, California
4 Nov 23
@much2say I agree! I dislike touch screen keyboards.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
1 Nov 23
Of course I learned on this one..I wasn't a very fast typist but hit 70 WPM.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
2 Nov 23
You remember the speed. I had great speed.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
3 Nov 23
@RebeccasFarm I started my career that involved typing but soon went up the ladder and my last post was in the middle mangement cadre.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
2 Nov 23
@allknowing I did, because I learned in high school, and in business school and later on I was on Keypunch operator and also in the typing pool working at British Leyland.
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
1 Nov 23
I took two years of typing in high school...that's how old I am! I loved typing, I still do. I enjoy whenever I can myLot on my desktop with a normal keyboard.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Nov 23
I too work have a desk top computer and love typing It is much faster but with lots of types (lol)
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
2 Nov 23
By the time I was a young girl, computers were already popular. I never used typewriter. My grandfather had one and I remember him using it to write all his books and papers. We still have them as his memory.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
3 Nov 23
Seems you belong to the younger generation who were born when computers were in existence.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
3 Nov 23
@arunima25 I got a desk top in the year 1998 - not so far behind
I started going for classes in 1984 and learnt basic, and Excel.
In the year 1998 I bought the book Windows for Dummies and a friend taught me how to work on a computer. 
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
3 Nov 23
@allknowing Yes, I was born in 1978. We got a desktop in our home in 1993.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Nov 23
Unless you keep in touch your speed will disappear and with the keyboard that we have for our pc with a soft touch going back to the typewriter will be an ordeal
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@zhangxueying (3362)
• China
1 Nov 23
I have never seen such a typewriter because I have been taking computer basics courses since elementary school
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Nov 23
(lol) I was expecting such a resonse as unlike we seniors you guys would not have come across typewriters
