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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Gets Greedier (Read it and Weep!)
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Date: 24 Sep 88 17:01:21 GMT
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>Didn't they have to turn in term papers and
>reports?  Am I the only one whose high school teachers required the
>papers to be typed?  I would have been lost in high school with my
>jr.high typing class.

If you took a poll, I think you would find that touch typists are a
minority. I've been in the computer industry for almost 11 years now, and I
have NEVER worked in a group where a majority of the programmers or
computer types could type quickly. Personally, I type 60-75WPM, and I've
been clocked at 120wpm twice (blew my typing teach away. I can only do it on
a selectric keyboard, though, and NO computer manufacturer has ever come up
with a keyboard even close...) and invariably people freak out when they
first see me in action. 

You would think they would teach typing as part of a C.S. degree. But most
of the people I run into are either self-taught or hunt-and-peck artists. (I
know one person who can type 15-20WPM with two fingers and a thumb, so being
a h&p isn't an insult).

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