Subj : Re: Keyboards and typing
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Mon Sep 09 2019 09:31:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-04-19  06:59 <=-
 JM> Nancy wrote to Daryl --
 
 > the Bahamas are being hit hard,

 JM> I once had the idea of retiring there.  The weather and all seemed
 JM> perfect.  Except for the occasional "wind storm".

As can be easily seen now, one does need to pay attention to those
occasional "wind storms".... especially when occompanied by heavy
rain..... ;0
 
 > Perhaps our keyboards are older and therefore built better

 JM> Ah, remember the days when needing a new keyboard and the hunt for a
 JM> place that even sold them?  And the prices!  Sheesh. 
 
Fortunately, not something I've needed to deal with... it's always been
Richard's balliwick...  :)  And somehow or other, he keeps being gifted
with cast-off computers... 

 > all the keys are still quite visiible on my keyboard

 JM> One time during my deep cleaning I ran a damp rag of spic-and-span
 JM> and bleach over the keyboard to clean off the keys that aren't often
 JM> used and shortly after half of the letters disappeared.  :)
 
Ooooooppss!  I thought there were instructions warning one to only use
water in that damp rag.... or using one of those "miracle" fabrics for
cleaning things.... ;)

 > I've become somewhat of a touch typist

 JM> I am as well, provided I keep looking at the screen.
 JM> Just remember those home keys!  :)

I don't really keep my fingers on the home keys... and will use either
hand on either half of the keyboard...  But, I do look at the screen, so
I see what I've typed... and can correct on the fly...  I guess
somewhere along the line, I've managed to memorize the keyboard itself,
so I can figure out where the finger should have been when I've
typoed....  and I do look at the keyboard from time to time still... :) 
Still, I'm more a touch typist than not, now... :)

 > She put a piece of paper over the keyboard so that I couldn't see the
 > keys any more 
 
 JM> When I used a typewriter something I wrote often looked like I had
 JM> the keyboard covered.  :)
 JM> I learned to type on a upright manual and never got the hang of
 JM> using an electric.  I have a bad habit of resting my fingers on the
 JM> keys and often it would come out like thisss.
 
That once in a while happens with the computer keyboards for me... but
it doesn't seem to be all the time that I rest a finger on a just used
key.... only sometimes... :)

 > on a computer, in a nice text editor, it's easy enough to fix the
 > typos on the fly 
 JM> When I got my Commie in the mid '80s I wrote people that soon they
 JM> would get letters from me without typo's.  
 JM> Ah, the days of snail mail.
 JM> I used to be in regular correspondence with about a dozen people and
 JM> each letter was individual (adding/subtracting things of interest to
 JM> that person).  And typing basically the same thing over and over and
 JM> over... Now its just cut and paste.

The text editor of the computer makes that so much easier...  ;)  But
one still can individualize it to fit the receiver...  :)

ttyl      neb

.... If you stomp gripes, do you get whine?

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