I have a small collection of typewriters. Someone decided that to compliment this, I needed this book:


Pitman's Commercial Typing by hairydalek, on Flickr


Fingering Diagram by hairydalek, on Flickr


Typewriter Diagram by hairydalek, on Flickr


Typewriter Diagram by hairydalek, on Flickr

This is how it used to be. I have to show this lot to someone I went to school with and see if she recognises it. They taught typing to the girls there.

isint that technology too modern for when you were at school? I assumed you had fred flintstone style bits of pallet rock and a chisel to "write" stuff on

Well. There was certainly resistance from some quarters when the quill and parchment was introduced.

Actually, school in the late 1970s and 1980s was interesting. We had the usual boys subjects - woodwork, metalwork, technical drawing. Girls did cookery, sewing and typing. Seriously, after the first year that is how it was split.

During this time, the computer room got set up by a biology teacher who had an interest in computers, and we had an RML 380Z, a ZX81 and eventually a few BBC Micros.

When I look at what schools have now, I know that at the time I was at school, we had nothing. We might as well have been banging rocks together.

Copies of the book I posted images from would likely to have been found in the typing room.