And we LIKED IT!

[ashling]

[LWolf]

1. My first typing class,

in 8th grade, used a manual typewriter much like those.

That was in the 70s, though; the students looked quite a bit different.

[RebelOne]

2. Yes, I learned to type on a manual typewriter.

That was years before electric typewriters were invented.

[femmocrat]

3. I did too.

One of the most useful classes I took in 13 years of school. (The other useful one was sewing!)

[trof]

4. With blank keys!

In my typing class the typewriter keys were BLACK!
There was a poster/'graphic' of the keyboard on the blackboard.
That was tough, but you sure as hell learned to 'touch type'.

[LWolf]

7. I learned to touch type so well

that I stumble if I'm actually looking at the keyboard.

I think this is one of the reasons I've resisted adopting technologies like notebooks and phones that text and have internet access; I need the standard keyboard to type. Tiny little buttons I try to use my thumbs or fingers on just frustrates me.

[GoCubsGo]

9. I only have trouble with the numbers row.

Also the brackets and the slash keys, since I rarely use them. And, I never could remember which symbols were on which keys.

[RebelOne]

10. Yup, remember those blank keys. n/t

[ashling]

5. Junior in HS 1968

on a Royal manual

[Brigid]

6. Underwood typewriter here.

The big chunky ones. And yes, with little pieces of electrician's tape on the keys. Ah, the good.old days.

[trof]

11. Still got mine.

I should display it in the living room as a museum piece.

[TrogL]

8. My first typing class in high school

...was mandatory. I had been typing since grade 5 and had worked up a fairly good speed. End of the first class we were given some exercises to do, I think one of them was typing the alphabet. Everybody else was going peck.....peck.....peck and I was sounding like a machine gun. They made me finish the course so I could learn all about envelop sizes and stuff.

[MKITEM]

12. old school