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Originally Posted by Kitt
We had desktop computers when they first came out. No Internet then. After a number of years we went to laptops. I, too, am a very fast typer with 120 words a minute - no mistakes - on the old manual typewriters. I had no trouble typing fast on the desktops or on the laptops.
Whatever works, works.
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I have an interesting story to share with you all. About 30 or so years ago I worked for a company and I was on the Administrative Floor. I was a private secretary to the Executive Vice President. We secretaries ALL had Selectric typewriters and we would go at them like speed demons. I also had lunch with all the other secretaries in the whole company on another floor every day at 1 p.m. (We all would watch All My Children).
Well, one day some one comes in and poses an idea. They want to select ONE secretary and send her to IBM school because the company was going to be testing the first IBM Desktop Computer with a dot matrix printer. Guess who they chose? ME???
I went to IBM school every day, learned how to use the computer, and in about 3 months I was the one who had the very first IBM desktop computer instead of the Selectric Typewriter. Man, I could fly on that machine. The dot matrix printer was the noisiest thing and they had to install a big cover on it because it was driving everyone crazy.
So guess what happened when I went to lunch. NO ONE SPOKE TO ME. No one!!! Not for almost two years. I was persona non grata because I had the only computer in the whole company.
Well, two years past, everyone got a personal desktop computer at their desk and guess who they called up saying 'Melody, what does the F10 button do, what does the F2 button do?
We also did word processing and I knew the whole thing because I had been doing Multi Mate Advantage for two years. The other gals called me all day long asking "How do you paginate, how do you do mail merge". I will NEVER forget those questions. I was hopping from my desk to all the other secretaries and showed them all. I never said one word about them not speaking to me for two years. What would that have accomplished?
Then I got the first ink jet printer. Then a laser printer. Finally, they all got the same thing.
It was so hard back then not having any friends. I have never forgotten that experience.
Melody
P.S. The whole computer had a 20 megabyte hard drive. Can you imagine??