Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/24

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: [Leica] Typewriters!
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:28:11 -0800 (PST)

Whew!!!! 175 wpm minute...I wonder what's the record
in the Guiness Book....probably with one of those IBM
typewriters with those changeable ball fonts. I don't
think it would be possible with the old Underwriters.

- --- Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> wrote:
> At 08:35 AM 2/24/03 -0800, Henry Ting wrote:
> >
> >Well they say oldtimer writers write better on
> >typewriters. Probably that "clickety, clackety"
> sound
> >inspires their thoughts. But I for one would be
> driven
> >crazy by that sound.
> >
> 
> Around 1985, IBM came out with an absolutely silent
> keyboard, and the
> typists HATED it.  So, it was taken off the market
> and all that we can buy
> today are keyboards with a fake clicker built into
> them.  I LOVED the
> silent board and would love to find such today -- it
> is great when you get
> an annoying telephone call to be able to go on
> typing.
> 
> I learned to type on a manual Smith-Corona and later
> graduated to the older
> IBM electrics, then to the Selectrics, and, finally,
> to Wheelwriters.  I
> can do around 90 wpm on an electric (I did work for
> a year as a secretary,
> after all!) but I can beat that dead with a computer
> -- the last test I
> took on a computer was around 175 wpm and I wasn't
> pushing it, just typing.
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
> Cha robh bೠfir gun ghrೠfir!
> 
> --
> To unsubscribe, see
http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html


__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more
http://taxes.yahoo.com/
- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html