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From: allanon@hope.UUCP (Kenneth Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Input device
Message-ID: <1165@hope.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 13:04:15 EST
Article-I.D.: hope.1165
Posted: Wed Jan 21 13:04:15 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 20:53:19 EST
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> In article <1145@rti-sel.UUCP> rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) writes:
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> ->	Do people who use a keyboard almost exclusively (like programmers
> ->	who don't work with paper if they can avoid it) begin to forget
> ->	who to write with a pencil/pen, or get worse at it?
> -> [......stuff deleted.....]
Very true, I use a keyboard extensively for all my writing, and to revert
back to pens and pencils can be difficult (at tests esp.).
All my data is stored on a PC left on 24hrs a day, and I type everything
from memos to homework.

Another topic, notice how most people(programmers excluded) still thinks
that typing is a special EFFORT? I handed in some homework the other day
and the grader THANKED me for typing the answers out (it was <1page)
For me it is easier to read printed info and easier to edit and change
stuff. The print was obvious computer printed (dot matrix) but people still
feel it is an effort......
Anybody know what the % of people in this country knows how to type or
use a word-processor?

-ken 

"Stand by, sir. Miracle worker at work."   STIV

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