I learned on a manual and that is also what we had to use in school. I hate them now and have absolutely no finger strength (and the manual return at this point would be the death of me :-)
I had to unjam the keys many, many times and did get inky. I had the "pencils" that were eraser at one tip and brush at the other end along with the circular eraser-that-wasn't/brush combo mentioned in an entry above.
I'd kill to be able to type at 50+wpm but I can't. The fibro started in my hands and makes them all sorts of weird. I also frequently do the one-handed thing whether is is a kid or the phone or holding the keyboard.....nothing anywhere fun enough to be pervy, unfortunately.
I loved Selectrics. I remember the first job I had where they were standard equipment (a law office.) My original fibro-coping kb was a Casiowriter which had a tiny preview screen and a memory chip with a dictionary so I could catch more of my typos.
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I had to unjam the keys many, many times and did get inky. I had the "pencils" that were eraser at one tip and brush at the other end along with the circular eraser-that-wasn't/brush combo mentioned in an entry above.
I'd kill to be able to type at 50+wpm but I can't. The fibro started in my hands and makes them all sorts of weird. I also frequently do the one-handed thing whether is is a kid or the phone or holding the keyboard.....nothing anywhere fun enough to be pervy, unfortunately.
I loved Selectrics. I remember the first job I had where they were standard equipment (a law office.)
My original fibro-coping kb was a Casiowriter which had a tiny preview screen and a memory chip with a dictionary so I could catch more of my typos.