Fun pub discussion last night - things your kids will never know or experience

[Manifestor_of_Light]

217. I took an IBM Standard with me to college forty years ago.

They were heavy. My dad had to bring it in my dorm room on move-in day. I was serious. I think my roommates were horrified, since that meant I was there to study, not party. I could type 80 wpm in college on an IBM Standard (the kind with separate type keys, not the Selectric with a ball). I could jam any IBM b/c I was too fast. I typed term papers for extra money.

It wasn't until about 1999 that I took a computer typing test that I could not jam.

I scored 114 Words Per Minute, and that was going back and correcting it so it was perfect!! (braggity brag) I'm a piano player. That helps A LOT.

Carbons and onionskin and erasers. In high school I took one semester of typing on a ^%$#@ manual. After that I used Mom's IBM and never looked back.

My mother, my grandmother and I all constantly wrote to each other by typing our letters.
Grandmother would type "Dearest Children" on hers and put in 2 carbons, having 3 kids.
She used an old Royal and typed with 4 fingers.
Mom and I used an IBM. I eventually got a 9-pitch Selectric
for my court reporting transcripts.