FAO Afcjan - re typing

[Schutzengel]

When you mentioned the Home Keys, reminded me of the teacher I had. She used to stand at the front of the class with a wooden blackboard pointer, with which she used to rhythmically tap a desk, as she barked out
a s d f ; l k j . Heavy keys, no electronic typewriters or computers back then. It was said that a typist working 9 - 5 would move the weight of 4 tons in a working day. No wonder we were tired. We also had a little wooden cover, a bit like a stool, which we put our hands inside so that we couldn't see the keys, and of course it got more difficult as the teacher kept adding in more letters. Do you remember the carbon copies, and no such thing as Tippex. Did you ever have to type on to waxed Gestetner sheets, with the horrible pink correction fluid. Or was that before your time. Glad those days are long gone.
Schutz.

[grasscarp]

Oh yes to Gestetner. The fluid was a pinky orangey colour and glooped horribly. You then had to try and type the letter again and could it horribly gunged up. People who have never corrected 5 carbon copies of a letter, with little pieces of paper starting from the back etc havent lived!

[terambulan]

sniff - 1 bottle.....yeh - we all got high ;)

http://www.typeonline.co.uk/lesson1.html

[afcjan]

oh schutz, it all comes back doesnt it....I learnt on an old remington really ancient to learn on, it was years old when I had it.

at school the machines were slightly more uptodate, and when I left school we had electric typewriters wow. the speed, but we werent allowed to make mistakes. I worked for the police and tippex was never allowed in statements and reports. if you made a mistake you started again, not like working on a computer. spelling becomes really lazy when you work on a pc, because u rely on spell check.

in my first job at 16, I can remember the gestetner machine and typing on the skins. my first real boyfriend worked for gestetner in Tottenham.

not saying anymore making me feel really old...ha ha
but agree with what u say glad those days are long gone.

luv Jan xxx

[Schutzengel]

grasscarp. Didn't the pink correction fluid stink. All those bits of paper and eraser for correcting multiple copies. Ugh!!! The keys were so difficult to strike hard enough, and when the last copy was too feint to be any good, it had to be typed all over again. I'm glad I'm not young anymore. Cheers. Schutz.

[angel21]

I suppose thats why they taught touch typing back then cus you had to learn to be accurate. Imagine having to start all over again after one little mistake. Nigtmare. GLad I don't live in those days.

[Schutzengel]

Ha Ha afcjan. "Electric typewriters when you left school". You're only a nipper. Have you noticed though, that spell-checkers are only as good as the operator, because where/wear, and similar same sounding words don't show up as errors because they are recognisable words. Just to make life a bit more difficult unless you are good at English. luv Schutz.

[terambulan]

Correction fluid sends you high when sniffed - did you miss that? It increased typing speeds and made sitting on bosses knee more bearable for a rise - of course! I married mine ;o)

[Schutzengel]

teram. Was he worth it, and have you still got him. :-)

[grasscarp]

One last thought, do you remember that if you typed too fast on a manual typewriter, all the keys got jammed together and you had to release them and let them fall back into line!!!