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Re: Typing requirement in a tech writing ad - how to respond?
Subject:Re: Typing requirement in a tech writing ad - how to respond? From:"Cheryl Wallace" <cwallace -at- costlink -dot- com> To:"France Baril" <France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:32:48 -0400
Class of 84. I guess I was stuck on the cusp again. First metric, then
computers replacing typewriters. My second year of typing (where half the
class was male) was also the first year "Computer Programming" aka BASIC was
available. The curriculum wasn't even finalized before the school year
started. Those Apples were pretty cool at the time. I still have a 5.25
floppy from that class.
Cheryl
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From: "France Baril" <France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com>
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Subject: RE: Typing requirement in a tech writing ad - how to respond?
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> I think it was available in the early 80's in my region too. I remember
seeing typewriters when I went to visit the high school as a kid. However,
they disapeared before I got there, 85 to 90. They were replaced with
computers, we learned to program in BASIC and to use Word Perfect 5.0, but
not to type.
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> I guess my region is too far up north... although I did not live that far
from Montreal. Well, I might have to take back my comment about age
discrimination and just call back my old teachers to ask them what happened
in my high schools, cause neither one of them had offered these classes.
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> From: Cheryl Wallace [mailto:cwallace -at- costlink -dot- com]
> Sent: 11 septembre, 2003 09:50
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Typing requirement in a tech writing ad - how to respond?
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> Typing (on typewriters! yes, electric) was available in Montreal high
> schools in the late 70's and early 80's. I know. I forced myself through
> two years of touch typing. Tape over the keys, hands under the paper.
Data
> enty was the only thing that cured me of looking at the keys - and got me
> over the 35 wpm hump.
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> Cheryl
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