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I learnt to touch type at school, to music (of sorts!), We had a very traditional teacher with her hair in a roll, tweed skirt and brown brogues. She used to walk up and down between the desks checking that we were using the correct fingers on each of the keys.

Oooh, carbon paper. I remember it well, AnnC. I also used to have to type onto Gestetner stencils. What fun that was when it came to putting them onto the machine to print out the documents.

I can touch type - learned on a very antiquted machine - was very pleased typewriters were replaced by computers as you need no strength to type any more and mistakes can be easily rectified

I used to have to type reports on A3 paper - very thin aeromail type paper - in batches of twelve for a meeting - showing the present month in black and the corresponding previous month in red - that meant typing all the black first, then sliding red carbon paper behind all the black and switching to the red ribbon - if you made an error, you had to go through all twelve sheets of paper to do the correction

One of these reports for every department in the cigar factory where I worked - the production figures, sickness figures, transport etc. Very time consuming and fiddly

I larntd to titch gtoop

Dear All

Hello


For those of us old enough to remember papyrus and pen and feather,
the typewriter was a wonderful invention. :-)

Sadly, it has been replaced by odious and technical things called computers.


My question is do you still use a typewriter and did you learn to touch type?


Take gentle care
Best wishes
EOS
xx

:-)