I learned on a manual as a pre-teen, and still sometimes pound the keys too hard. BTDT on untangling the inky keys, eraser pencils with a brush on the other end, carbon paper, metal erasing shields, and razor blades to scrape off errors on mimeograph masters. I am a touch typist, and a fast one, but my accuracy's gone all to hell since I began using computers exclusively -- it's just too easy to fix a typo. That problem started with the second generation of IBM Selectrics, which I loved and still sorta miss. Once they developed the "self-correcting" typewriter, my accuracy was doomed.
Ooooh, I had one of those at one job (before they decided that secretaries should learn either word processing or computers -- I opted for the computer, btw). I miss my Selectric, although you still had to count spaces to justify text (manually justifying clauses on commercial leases was a real pain). But it was so much easier than all the correctype thingies (except, of course, when you were using carbons or carbon sets)!
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