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To: SamAdams76

I took typing in 8th grade. Important skill that I use all of the time. In my senior year of high school, I took a class in office machines. Learned to key punch on a number pad very fast without looking at the pad. We used those old hand crank adding machines, and the old cash registers. Hand held calculators were just coming out. Memories


20 posted on 08/12/2018 7:20:21 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: virgil

“In my senior year of high school, I took a class in office machines.”

It’s way past my bedtime. I thought that said “coffee machines” first read-through.


54 posted on 08/13/2018 1:01:25 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: virgil

Another great memory—the hand held manual Curta Calculator. I bought one in 1970 to use in my first job out of the Army when I was assigned to doing trust and estate work. The first handled electronic calculators came out about a year later. I still; have the old Curta in its original box with its original instructions.

This thread’s really gathering the memories of all us old farts.


68 posted on 08/13/2018 6:46:32 AM PDT by libstripper
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