" TYPING SKILLS/ FIELDS OF TYPING " 1972 TYPEWRITER BASED CAREERS EDUCATIONAL FILM (Color) XD72104

[@quantumleap359]

I am so glad I took typing in high school in 1965. A skill I still use today, and I was the only boy in the all girl class! I recommended typing (keyboarding) to my children. They can all type proficiently.

[@OofusTwillip]

You can truly appreciate the enormous saving of time and effort that electronic memory typewriters, and then computers, gave us.

[@triple6758]

So very glad I had typing class. Had no idea at the time how intergrated leyboards would become. I took it so I could finish assignments faster.

[@flobrez2470]

I remember taking typing in school. Good old Selectric typewriter.

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Learned to type as a radio operator in the USAF, a skill that I've used nearly every working day since the mid-70s. Thanks, Uncle Sam!

[@starrlara2599]

Back in the 70s, I signed up on the Buddy Plan for the Army as a clerk typist. I got to enlist as an E3 and come out of Basic as an E5. I also had a work study job in college in the typing lab. I checked out the materials to the students, like tape recorders and headphones and books.

[@sgs1262]

wrong, no way you came out as a sergeant

[@starrlara2599]

@@sgs1262 uh wrong. I did ! because I already had two years of a civilian job. I have no idea if it was called sergeant. It was just called E5. Heck I went in as an E3. It was back in the mid 70s.

[@sgs1262]

@@starrlara2599 and the plot thickens, you're an E-5 and you don't even know you're a sergeant, weird

[@johnsoule2417]

@@sgs1262 As a clerk typist, she was not a Sergeant. She was not even a NCO. She was a Specialist 5, and paid the same as a Sergeant because the Army valued her skills. It was common for Specialists to refer to one another by their pay grades, as they had not come up through the ranks and leadership paths a Sergeant would have.

[@tsr207]

The Olivetti Editor 3 typewriter in the film looked so stylish - compared to the lumpy IBM Executive shown later . Enjoyed working on the Olivetti range - so easy to repair !

[@OofusTwillip]

In 1984, I took Typing 101, in high school. We learned on big, manual Olympia typewriters, and we learned many of the techniques shown in this film. It's absolutely the most useful course I ever took. I only wish I'd taken Shorthand too.

[@anthonythomas1504]

I loved the machine gun rattle of the IBM Selecric. I worked for the owner of a struggling business who, whenever he was on the phone with prospective big clients, would make us all pound away to make it sound like the place was humming. Without paper! Paper was expensive.

[@w2tty]

I remember the first time I worked in an office. I was about 17 years old, and there was a person typing in there like you see in this video at 12:30. I was so amazed how fast she could type without even looking at the paper in the typewriter.

[@asd36f]

Remember the old manual typewriters when two keys would jam together and had to be separated

[@DoctorShocktor]

You must be from the twenties. QWERTY keyboards were invented to prevent such jamming, unless you were a bratty kid just jamming down a bunch of random keys all at once.

[@onenewworldmonkey]

My typing class was about 25 girls and 1 guy-me. I still to this day hit the keys too hard from learning on a manual. My only regret is that I didn't take short hand and home ec, which would have been unforgivable for a guy. It would have helped the rest of my life, though.

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

"Fields of typing. That's what you're going to spend the rest of your life mowing through. Form after meaningless form will parade before your eyes until they haunt your every dream. Even the weekend BBQs won't feel as intimate as a good tab stop setting."

[@dariowiter3078]

I took typing in junior high school back in the early '80s. I felt weird during the time I learned using a typewriter. 😊

[@curtwuollet2912]

Typing _has_ become a Crucial skill, just not like they thought. Seen a typewriter lately?

[@new2000car]

You don’t see them anymore because they keep them covered up, they remove the vinyl cover only when they need to type something up.

[@curtwuollet2912]

@@new2000car I think you would need a shovel at the land fill to uncover them.

[@anthonythomas1504]

Keyboards are everywhere so what's your point?

[@curtwuollet2912]

@@anthonythomas1504 My only point is that the machines seemed to dissappear almost completely in short order. A word processor isnt a typewriter and most typing now is done for completely different reasons.

[@new2000car]

@@curtwuollet2912disappear ? I don’t think so. Excuse me while I send this fax. And why am I finding it so hard to find the rolls of thermopaper?

[@duacot6633]

I had a nasty teacher in elementary school who would go out of her way to harass and belittle me. Mrs Straight at Niles Garden Elementary School out of Manteca California - this woman was the epitome of a nasty evil woman. She often would say things to the class to insult me such as accusing me "want's to be a woman" or "he's already growing his hair long". This was 7th grade, around 1984. I had been learning to write code in BASIC on a PET computer for a few years now and already had familiarity with the layout on a typewriter going back to around '78.. Oh how she would laugh at me and make fun of me in front of the entire class. She called me an idiot for sharing a belief that computes would be in every home or office and everyone would be using one regardless of what they did as a profession. Too often she would even accuse me of breaking or sabotaging typewriters when the keys would stick or the ribbons would tangle. Most of those donated typewriters were from the 20's and 30's! Coincidently I had a Computer Class during the same school year where a proper teacher, Mrs Ellis, identified I was quite knowledgeable with using a computer (Apple II's, PETs) and often would have me assist other students in the class. My father had taken me to the first 2 computer expos in San Francisco and I was quite proud of my Byte Me! t-shirt until it was deemed offensive. What I find interesting is that I have never typed on an electric typewriter.

[@OofusTwillip]

Sounds like that horrible teacher felt so threatened by your superior knowledge that she felt the need to lash out at you, every chance she got. Any teacher who feels threatened by having an intelligent student has no business being in the profession. A teacher should be excited to nurture an unusually intelligent student. I had a horrible teacher too, when I was in Grades 5 & 6. A child-psychiatrist told my parents to get me out of that school ASAP. Wisely, they found a much better school for me, where I thrived. Several years later, I had a summer job as a palm-reader at the Canadian National Exhibition, and who should enter the tent but that horrible teacher and the poor fish she'd hooked into marrying her. I guilelessly blurted out a cheerful welcome, inviting them to sit in the waiting area while I finished with my current client. She looked like she'd seen a ghost. When I glanced up again, she and her husband were gone. My manager said the woman had grabbed her husband's hand, and they'd both left the tent at top-speed. I'm sure that, once they were far enough away, she'd told her husband, "I always KNEW that kid knew too much!"

[@starrlara2599]

I also had a shag haircut like this typist. Lol

[@anthonythomas1504]

It's a Carol Brady mullet.

[@Madness832]

Wonder if they even more delighted when word processors came out.

[@OofusTwillip]

As someone who learned those techniques on a manual typewriter, I sure was!

[@Glorfindel92]

Redswitch keyboard is the best😮❤😂

[@Jay_Dee1911]

SIRI, what is typing?

[@davidcarroll8735]

Did she get the job?

[@chuckrawlings9518]

Yes, as scriptwriter for an educational film company in Chicago (Probably kidding, but you never know)

[@MrDoneboy]

I remember typing class in tenth grade...All of the pretty girls...And have the class was other dudes. Bummer!

[@sgs1262]

That's a beautiful girl she would probably have a better career as a model

[@DoctorShocktor]

Yeah, why be a writer, or business leader, just be a model ‘cause you’re cute. SMH

[@sgs1262]

@@DoctorShocktor you can do both, smh

[@Kato_Rin]

She probably was a model. Look how tall she is standing next to the older lady at 1:21!

[@DemocracyDiesInDarkness]

The dystopian nightmare that is typing

[@dariowiter3078]

What a stupid thing to say! 😖😖😖😖😖

[@DemocracyDiesInDarkness]

@@dariowiter3078 I learned to type on an IBM Selectric and worked in a corporate typing pool, it was a monotonous and tedious job. A few years later it was replaced by computers.