"Bob" wrote in message
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On Sep 11, 6:43 pm, Dave wrote:

More utter nonsense. Only a fool would let work product that had been
typed
at the rate of 80-100 words per minute go out without proofreading.

even if he
were as skilled as the best of those whose full-time job is
transcription.


My mom died last last year at this time. After building Liberty ships
i WW2 and Korea she became a typest. When she retired she was able to
do 120 error free. But then again she also new shorthand. SHe really
liked the computers. It was more difficult to jam em. She routeenly
out typed the IBM Selectricts. She was just too fast for thoes IBM
balls.


Sorry, but that's either a lie or an old wife's tale. IBM Selectrics had
a memory chip. You could not lose keystrokes because you eventuated them
faster than the mechanism could put them on paper. If you typed faster
than the ball could move, the ball would just continue to move after you
had stopped typing until it caught up.

I hope this helps.

Wilbur Hubbard





She said when she was working in the federal building steno
pool there were others who were a lot faster !
Gone with the buggie whips

Bob