[TUHS] [TUHS} Typing Tutor [and tuhs archive]

[George Michaelson]

The "learn" about shell or editing required you to demonstrate you
could type with 'pack my box with six dozen liquor jugs' input gating
the lesson as I remember it. something else around that time, I think
the TOPS-10 typing tutor got me the home keys. Took another 10 years
for me to wake up to being able to type mostly eyes off the keyboard
but it sure seems to work (most of the the time) now.

-G

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 9:28 AM M Douglas McIlroy
<m.douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> This topic is evocative, even though I really have nothing to say about it.
>
> Mike Lesk started, and I believe Brian contributed to, "learn", a program
> for interactive tutorials about Unix. It was never pushed very far--almost
> certainly not into typing.
>
> But the mention of typing brings to mind the inimitable Fred Grampp--he
> who pioneered massive white-hat computer cracking. Fred's exploits justified
> the opening sentence I wrote for Bell Labs' first computer-security task
> force report, "It is easy and not very risky to pilfer data from Bell
> Laboratories computers." Among Fred's many distinctive and endearing
> quirks was the fact that he was a confirmed two-finger typist--proof that
> typing technique is an insignificant factor in programmer productivity.
>
> I thought this would be an excuse to tell another ftg story, but I
> don't want to repeat myself and a search for "Grampp" in the tuhs archives
> misses many that have already been told. Have the entries been lost or
> is the index defective?
>
> Doug
>