jackm1943 wrote:
I noted the comment about electric typewriters. I was an eighth grader in '57/58 and took typing in high school a few years later. I remember that we had only one electric typewriter for the class, all the others being manual. Typing turned out to be probably the most useful class I took in HS.
My husband had the option to take a typing class in high school in the mid-1960s but thought, "Why do I need typing? I'm not going to be a secretary." Twenty years later he taught himself programming and eventually worked as a programmer. He still did two-finger typing until he retired.