showing your age...

**pomtzu** · 05-11-2009, 11:39 AM

Typewriters???

Ok - now I remember. Typing I was on that IBM manual, and Typing II you got the luxury of an electric.
And remember the course in Business Machines? - the 10-key adding machine and the monstrous Friden Calculator that was as big as a desk top? It would sit there and clack and grind and take 5 minutes to work an equation and spit out the answer. You could sit there and do homework for other classes while waiting for it!

I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.

**kokopup** · 05-11-2009, 11:50 AM

post by Pomtzu

I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.
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Kids today can type faster on a phone keypad, with their thumbs, than
most could do with 10 fingers on a standard typewriter. Times are a changing.

**pomtzu** · 05-11-2009, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by kokopup

post by Pomtzu

Kids today can type faster on a phone keypad, with their thumbs, than
most could do with 10 fingers on a standard typewriter. Times are a changing.

You've got that right, but darned if I can. I watch my grandkids in amazement while they're texting!

**Taz_Zoee** · 05-11-2009, 12:46 PM

This thread is cracking me up!!
We have a typewriter here in the office and one time I was using it a younger co-worker walked by and said "you know how to use that thing?". I about died.

Several years ago when I was working in child care we had a record playing during nap time. I asked one of the college students, who was working for his hours, to restart the record. He looked at me like this

and said I don't know how.

**pomtzu** · 05-11-2009, 12:53 PM

Remember when drug stores were drug stores, and not mini Walmarts? And of course every one had a soda fountain where you could sit down at the counter and get sodas, shakes and sundaes.

I remember the first of the fast food burger joints where I lived, before the onslaught of McDonalds and the rest. Burgers were 15 cents or 10 for $1.00 - and they were good - not like what is typical now.

**Medusa** · 05-11-2009, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by pomtzu

Remember when drug stores were drug stores, and not mini Walmarts? And of course every one had a soda fountain where you could sit down at the counter and get sodas, shakes and sundaes.

I remember the first of the fast food burger joints where I lived, before the onslaught of McDonalds and the rest. Burgers were 15 cents or 10 for $1.00 - and they were good - not like what is typical now.

We had one here in Canal Fulton until just a few years ago. The same counter w/stools, etc., real ice cream, too. They sold it, though, and now it's a Thai restaurant.

**lvpets2002** · 05-11-2009, 12:54 PM

You watch == The Speed of Texting will be in the Olympics..

Originally Posted by pomtzu

You've got that right, but darned if I can. I watch my grandkids in amazement while they're texting!

**beeniesmom** · 05-11-2009, 12:57 PM