Room full of 7th graders (12 year olds) at manual typewriters. Keyboards are covered so that your can't look at keys while typing.
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Basic skills like loading paper, setting margins, carriage return when the margin bell dings. Initial exercises with letter...
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patterns and words formed only from home row letters. Upper and lower row letters were introduced later. We never got to numbers.
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I learned to touch-type numbers (and symbols on the top row) only many years later. Comes in handy for programming.
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Fun class exercises were following instructions to create essentially ASCII art, e.g., 10 spaces, 5 X, 22 sp, 8 X, next line, etc.
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Following all those instructions eventually resulted in a picture of Snoopy. Anything else you want to know?
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Oh, this is a great account. Really appreciate it. How did other kids do? I imagine some were not having as much fun?
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I did pretty well at typing, others not so much. When I got to college (before PCs) we all typed papers on electric typewriters.
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For me, the actual typing was the easy part. For others, it was half the job of writing a paper.
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Other students paid me to type their papers for them.
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Thanks for sharing all this!
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