Comment by anta40
1 year ago
I still remember learning to use typwriter in 1998/1999 (already knew some computer basics). Correcting typos wasn't particularly fun.
1 year ago
I still remember learning to use typwriter in 1998/1999 (already knew some computer basics). Correcting typos wasn't particularly fun.
We learned typewriter in school, I think it was around 85-89. Most of the typewriters where completely mechanical and to erase you either had a fluid you painted over the character to delete, waited for a few seconds to dry and then could type over. Or you used a small piece of paper that had a white sticky backside. You pressed the go-back-button and then typed the letter that you wanted to erase while holding the paper in front of the paper.
We also had a slightly more modern typewriter that was electric and had memory for a few characters, automating the delete function by switching to an erase-ribbon and hitting the right key for you.
And some of the typewriters even had two colors you could switch between. Oh the memories :-) That is one class that I still have use for every day. Can't say that about many of the others.
But it forces you to think and then write, instead of the other way around, by adding more cost to mistakes. As foe handwriting there have been studies that showed that handwritten notes are better memorized rhan computer-written ones.
> studies that showed that handwritten notes are better memorized rhan computer-written ones
I don't care that I look weird, but I still take a notebook (as in a physical notebook) to meetings and take notes by hand.
With rare exceptions, I never read those notes. But by writing them, I remember it, so I don't need to. Whenever I've experimented with taking notes on the computer, I can't remember any of it.
That's right. I use them for personal journals, where I can just use the X key to write over typos and then rewrite the word. If a high standard of presentation is not required, it's easy to write with.
Ahh... I remember old docs from my dad office. You'll see "Tipp-Ex" (correction fluid) used here and there to hide thse typos.
Hey, for the sake of fun, maybe I should try this again. I think I still have a typewriter stored somewhere...
If you have kids, do! They will be amazed about the old tech :-) Took mine out last spring and the daughter was all "Oooh!", "Hahah", "I want!". Ofcourse it's just standing in a corner forgotten now but it was fun for a day :-)
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