nixCraft 🐧Apr 23, 2024
Poll: Were you taught how to type on a computer keyboard in school?
yes
41.4%
no
58.6%
Poll ended at .
Show threadmaya_b 🇨🇦Apr 23, 2024

@nixCraft

typing was still taught on typewriters. And the correction ribbon was removed from all of them so your mistakes couldn't be hidden either.

Show threadBoyd Stephen Smith Jr.

@maya_b @nixCraft Our typewriters (also with correction ribbon removed) definitely had CPUs in them, but were not considered general purpose computers.

So, I answered no, but it was close.

Apr 26, 2024 at 5:19pmWeb
Show threadmaya_b 🇨🇦Apr 26, 2024

@BoydStephenSmithJr @nixCraft

someone I know had a typewriter with a built in spell checker, so definitely some computation going on in it.

though it choked on "syster" which could have been "sister" or "system". It was satisfying to break it on the first try 😜