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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

All the time! I had the chance recently to sit down at a real typewriter and type, and it is funny how limiting a real typewriter is (I found the stalks would jam on me, too many letters typed close together) but how fast I could get back into the flow of “clickety click click clickety click clickclickety click clickclickety click clickclickety click click THUD-ZINGGGGGGGGGG!clickety click click clickety click clickclickety click clickclickety click clickclickety click click THUD-ZINGGGGGGGGGG!clickety click click clickety click clickclickety click clickclickety click clickclickety click click THUD-ZINGGGGGGGGGG”

It was kind of fun

I found that on a computer keyboard, there are combinations of letters and words that I scream through, and it can’t be done on a regular typewriter that way...you have to be more “consistent”.


67 posted on 05/05/2016 6:56:16 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rlmorel

“I found that on a computer keyboard, there are combinations of letters and words that I scream through, and it can’t be done on a regular typewriter that way...you have to be more “consistent”.”

The arrangement of the keys (QWERTY) was an attempt to put the most-often-typed-together letters far enough apart so as to slow down the typist and avoid jams.


91 posted on 05/05/2016 8:18:25 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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