Okay, this must be the most bad-ass typist ever. Her name is Lenore Fention. The deadpan ending of this made me laugh out loud. (This is from a 1943 U.S. Navy training video.)pic.twitter.com/FH5yZROa4g
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(Ugh, Lenore FENTON.)
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Choice quotes from Lenore: “How you type is more important than what you type.” and “Don’t fight your typewriter, you can’t win. Don’t blame your typewriter, BLAME YOURSELF.”
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She died twelve years ago, at the age of 92: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=lenore-fenton-macclain&pid=3311141 … And the Electromatic typewriter – perhaps even the very same she’s typing on in the video – is now in the Smithsonian:http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1064590 …
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Okay, Lenore Fenton is basically a superhero at this point. Look at this typing wizardry!pic.twitter.com/xFjU8N7usO
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Replying to @mwichary @Bitterman59
That's faster than setting this up in word, setting up the printer to use card stock, and printing the cards.
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Yeah, early word processors had a “typewriter mode” for that and filling out pre-printed forms.
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