Subj : Re: Keyboards and typing
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Sat Sep 21 2019 13:45:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-16-19  07:50 <=-

 >  JM> typo and have to start all over again.
 > That's how my sister eased me into the world of computers... I was
 > typing minutes for an organization, and they had to be typo-free to be
 > submitted to the next levels up

 JM> I am reminded of one time I volunteered, for some reason, to work on
 JM> the monthly newsletter for the small church I was attending at the
 JM> time, 50+ years ago.
 JM> Somehow I was talked into typing up the newsletter which used a wax
 JM> (I think) sheet.  The key made an impression on the wax which was used
 JM> on the ditto machine.  Sometimes a typo could be "fixed" but one could
 JM> always tell a mistake had been made as that cha

cha?  ;)   

 JM> I hated that wax paper with a passion.  :)
 JM> I did love the smell of the ink and often sniffed the paper.  Did
 JM> that in school as well.

I remember those, the ditto machines and the mimeographs.... Daddy had
his own mimeograph and would run off tests for his college Physics
classes on it... so I grew up with the smell... ;)

 JM> But usually in school when a test was given the questions were
 JM> written on the blackboards so paper wasn't wasted.
 JM> I was so envious of the handwriting of those nuns.  It just flowed.

It was part of their schooling, no doubt...  ;)

 >  JM> But in general about 80 per cent of my mail is copy and paste.  :)
 > That can save wear and tear on the brain... and fingers....  <G>
 JM> 
 JM> Often times re-reading the second copy and paste letter I will find
 JM> errors I didn't see the first time around.
 JM> The other day I noticed the first letter I had written I was
 JM> talking about sampling all the food at an event so I wouldn't hurt the
 JM> feelings of someone by not eating what they had bought.  
 JM> I noticed I had originally written "so I would hurt their feelings"
 JM> not "so I would not hurt their feelings".  :)

Good catch... totally opposite meanings... <G>  And an easy enough slip,
too... ;0

ttyl      neb

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