Japanese crossword «Typewriter»
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Seems reversed - I have ideas about why.
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Are these obsolete? I mean in general. I am certain this type is.
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I took Typing I and Typing II in high school, and I believe ours was the last class to use electric typewriters. After that, they only had a "Keyboarding" class. My graduating year was meant to be 1993.
Funny(ish) story; about how my school counselor was a tool. At the start of my Jr. year I was working more than 20 hours a week at a burger place (for family reasons) and because I'd taken voluntary summer school classes after every year, I was literally half a Math credit and one PE credit from the state's legal requirements to graduate. So, I tried to get them to allow me to do some kind of testing-out of that 1.5 credits and graduate early; I didn't think it was a big ask considering I'd already taken electives like Typing, Accounting I and II, 2 different Computer Programming classes, Publishing and Interior Design. When they refused, I asked my counselor what on Earth I should waste the next year taking, his first suggestions were Metal Shop and Keyboarding...
Funny(ish) story; about how my school counselor was a tool. At the start of my Jr. year I was working more than 20 hours a week at a burger place (for family reasons) and because I'd taken voluntary summer school classes after every year, I was literally half a Math credit and one PE credit from the state's legal requirements to graduate. So, I tried to get them to allow me to do some kind of testing-out of that 1.5 credits and graduate early; I didn't think it was a big ask considering I'd already taken electives like Typing, Accounting I and II, 2 different Computer Programming classes, Publishing and Interior Design. When they refused, I asked my counselor what on Earth I should waste the next year taking, his first suggestions were Metal Shop and Keyboarding...
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If I'd had my present-day awareness of how absurd the whole thing I was, I would have literally laughed in his face and gone over his head. Especially since the district Superintendent at the time had been my Science and Homeroom teacher in Middle School. Instead I dropped out that day and took the GED test a few months later. The Superintendent actually handed me results and certificate himself, and gave me an amused ribbing because, despite having scores in the highest percentiles in the state in English and Math, Science was my lowest score. I just couldn't wrap my brain around a lot of physics and chemistry when I was that age.
If I'd had my present-day awareness of how absurd the whole thing I was, I would have literally laughed in his face and gone over his head. Especially since the district Superintendent at the time had been my Science and Homeroom teacher in Middle School. Instead I dropped out that day and took the GED test a few months later. The Superintendent actually handed me results and certificate himself, and gave me an amused ribbing because, despite having scores in the highest percentiles in the state in English and Math, Science was my lowest score. I just couldn't wrap my brain around a lot of physics and chemistry when I was that age.
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My experience was similar to yours, but 20 years earlier...I wanted to take woodshop and was denied because I was a girl. :D
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I enjoyed this puzzle. It took me 0:15:36 (on an iPad - so I have to actually touch each square I want to select. No using a mouse to mark off lines.) but I was able to do it without any x’s. Thank you benh. I enjoyed the process. Especially knowing that this was your first puzzle!
replyNormally avoid ones with so many ones, but this one was pleasantly solvable without single clicks or too much counting!
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This is the type I had in high school. No, I'm old, but I'm not THAT old--it was already an antique, but it was all I had. I got a portable to take to college as a graduation present. I typed three economics theses (not mine--I never took an econ course), but it was the Navy that taught me to type. Fortunately, despite not using a keyboard between my discharge in '77 and having a home PC, it was just like riding a bike. Unlike riding a bike, which I somehow managed to forget.
Wow, a clever machine which prints in real time.
Thank you, benh!
replyThank you, benh!