Do People Still Use Typewriters?

Well, I am old as I do remember the typewriter. It was the first keyboard that I would key on. My mom had an old Underwood Typewriter. I remember using it to do some reports in school.

Sometimes I would just want to type things on it. I think mom gave or sold her typewriter so many years or decades ago. You see mom used to do typing as a job, I think back in the early 50's or so, when she was young, long before I was born.

I think in those days you had to have your own typewriter. I say that cause she would tell me for an interview she brought her Underwood Typewriter to her interview and they would test her to see if she could do, I don't know maybe 40 or 50 words per minute with only allowing a few errors.

I remember that was a heavy typewriter. I remember she even had these very old typewriting books. I remember trying to type with those books.

Well, in high school they had a more modern typewriter. You see they had electric typewriters. Mom's Underwood Typewriter was a mechanical typewriter.

I was never really good at typing class, as I would do 40 words per minute, but I would always do about 40 errors also. So I would get an A for words per minute, but an F for allowed errors.

I remember the really good thing about typewriting class was the cheerleader that sat in front of me. I was pretty shy in those days, so the most conversation that me and the cheerleader would say was, Hello.

Later on I got my self a used IBM XT computer. Of course having a first computer was fun, but the next best thing was keying with a word processor.

So I would key letters that I would send to different companies for whatever reason. Sometimes to complain that I didn't get my product or something like that.

In those days I used a dot matrix printer. I still have the last dot matrix printer that I bought I think in 1989. Also I still have that old IBM XT computer. One of these days maybe 30 years from today, God willing, I will sell both my IBM XT computer with the dot matrix printer, both still work by the way and even sell the software that goes with it.

So here I am today. Many computers since those days of my first computer and many printers since my dot matrix printer.

I got really good at keying things when I worked for the telephone company. At the telephone company we didn't use computers when I first came there in the later part of 1979, but in 1982 we started to use computers.

Thing was that we use a weird ABC format keyboard and we didn't get regular QWERTY keyboards until the late 90's. At first we had to get the ABC type keyboards cause of the contract with the union in those days.

You see with the older contract, they had to pay us more money if we had the QWERTY keyboards, but the later contracts allowed us to get the regular QWERTY keyboards. Funny how that works.

So here I am today. Retired from the telephone company since the last day of 2010 and still keying in stuff. Well it is all good, as I am keying in stuff for all the blogs I get to write.

Let's end with a scripture, with Jesus speaking, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. John 5:39.

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