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Post by vegalyra on Oct 10, 2019 23:45:38 GMT
Yes, I took it in eighth grade. I believe they were IBM Selectric typewriters (probably Selectric III). We had a separate class called "Microcomputers" which was a bunch of Apple IIe's and we programmed stuff in BASIC. Funny that we were still using typewriters for typing when they had computers down the hall. My brother was 2 years behind me and I think by the time he got to eighth grade they were using computers for typing.
I remember one of the early lessons:
ffff jjjj ffff jjjj
haha
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 11, 2019 0:56:54 GMT
We had typing classes but I never took one because like BATOuttHeck, I was on the academic track or whatever. I ended up teaching myself how to type.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 11, 2019 0:58:43 GMT
I AM a "boy", and am SO glad I did take it back in Junior High (mid 1970's) because that, along with my driving skills (Driver's Ed, a few years later) are just about the only two things (aside from readin', writin', and 'rithmetic!) from school that I still use to this day (not, of course, that I'm still typing papers, just that I haven't had to sit hunched over my computer keyboard these last three decades or so, "hunting and pecking")....  SAVE FERRIS Hah. I always thought, based on your name, that you were a woman.
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Post by gw on Oct 11, 2019 1:03:23 GMT
I think I took a typing course in seventh grade.
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Post by QueenB on Oct 11, 2019 1:28:59 GMT
Yes, I did. I think I took it in high school for a semester if I remember correctly. We used electronic typewriters. Never thought I would ever get the hang of not looking at the keyboard when I typed.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Oct 11, 2019 1:36:21 GMT
Yse , adfnd i recived am A.
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Post by ck100 on Oct 11, 2019 1:51:58 GMT
In middle school and freshman year for high school. We used old Apple computers at the time.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 11, 2019 17:34:20 GMT
Yes. I don't remember which year that was. I remember that it was in the basement and that the teacher was this weird-looking guy who could have easily played the part of a Neanderthal in a movie without the need of prosthetics or make-up.
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Post by jamesbamesy on Oct 11, 2019 23:55:36 GMT
Yes
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Post by marianne48 on Oct 12, 2019 0:06:02 GMT
Yes, on IBM Selectrics (with the letters on a big metal ball that turned back and forth on itself). We also had stenography, which was pretty much obsolete by the time I graduated. I was on the academic track, but I chose to take these as electives.
I wound up as the fastest typist and stenographer of the class, and the second fastest in the history of the high school (granted,
the high school was less than a decade old at the time). I never used stenography outside of high school, but the typing came in handy.
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Post by Lucy on Oct 22, 2019 5:08:42 GMT
In high school, yes, and I really sucked at it.
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Post by rizdek on Oct 22, 2019 13:22:21 GMT
When I was a youngun, the local high school had typing classes. Did your school? Yep, in the 60s. I failed it, but it was the most important class I took in HS, bar none, and the one that taught me something I've used all my life. Without it, I would've taken a long time to learn to type with all my fingers instead of the hunting and pecking many of my contemporaries used and still use.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 22, 2019 17:17:23 GMT
No
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 22, 2019 19:27:00 GMT
Yes, on IBM Selectrics (with the letters on a big metal ball that turned back and forth on itself). We also had stenography, which was pretty much obsolete by the time I graduated. I was on the academic track, but I chose to take these as electives. I wound up as the fastest typist and stenographer of the class, and the second fastest in the history of the high school (granted, the high school was less than a decade old at the time). I never used stenography outside of high school, but the typing came in handy. I would have liked to have taken shorthand. I think it would have come in extremely handy in studies after highschool.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Oct 22, 2019 20:04:15 GMT
I graduated high school in 1971, and yes, took three years of typing. Started on a manual, then we got the Selectric typewriters! WOOO HOOO! Also took business machines and other crap on top of all my English, Science, Math. History and Language classes. Also took art and was in band for a few years.
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Post by Bargle on Oct 24, 2019 12:15:48 GMT
They did in my high school. Manual typewriters (early 70s).
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Post by njcardfan on Oct 24, 2019 13:50:15 GMT
Mine did and it took to a degree. I can type without looking at a keyboard as long as it is a run in the mill QWERTY keyboard.
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