Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:22:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: cpiazza@home.net, tcole@balsam.methow.com, hodeleri@seattleu.edu, dscheidt@enteract.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD cures RSI Message-ID: <199908060822.BAA02979@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990805200540.D58583@mad> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Aug 5, 99 08:05:40 pm
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> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 02:58:34PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote: > > This I don't understand. Is it really true that younger people > > can't touch type very well? I've been able to touch type since > > No, and to the person who responded to this, no, the argument that > "readers of -chat are non-representative of younger people" does not > apply. All of this younger people can't type bullshit is mostly a > bunch of phogies trying to feel good about themselves. They should > stick to stories about being forced to program their Altairs through > toggle switches and how we have it so good these days with structured > languages. I learned to type on a manual typewriter in 1974, which was the last year man landed on the moon. I type an average of 132 words a minute on an IBM Selectric, or a computer keybard (I still have my manual; I can do 84 on it). I type slightly faster, if I'm writing prose, or taking dictation. Without fail, the most common comment I get when someone interupts me typing (it was a technical writer, yesterday) is "Gee, you're a fast typist". For comparison, one of the girls in my typing class typed around 185 words a minute (on a manual typewriter!) and compared to her speed, I always felt like a slug. I suspect that if she is still typing on computers today, she is probably only slightly less than twice as fast as I am. 8-(. For comparison purposes, words per minute translates directly to baud rate on an async serial line, e.g. 185 * 6 * 10 / 60 = 185 baud. Back in my "phogie" days, I used to overrun the buffers on 110 baud current loop equipment (e.g. VT52, TI Silent 700), unless I consciously paced myself down. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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