Re: Re:fun fact
Benjamin Cohen <[email protected]>
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Well, in the world before electric typewriters, electronic typewriters, correction fluid, lift-off correction tape, and especially computers, PhD theses were commonly typed by ... typists. Typing services were commonplace. My brother-in-law's father-in-law ran one in the 70's; he picked up dictation tapes (and probably some hand-written materials), delivered them to his contract typists, picked up the finished work, and delivered it. (A search of yellow pages for secretarial services in Chicago still turns up 203 entries!) When I bought my Osborne 1 in 1982 I sold my Correcting Selectric II to my secretary who ran a typing service out of her home evenings and weekends. One of my Osborne user group friends bought the computer for the sole purpose of typing his wife's thesis. Ben Cohen At 10:59 AM 1/31/09, Tom wrote: >Now I'm realizing that I hadn't looked for any of Dvorak's works in my >school library. I just found his PhD thesis, which isn't about keyboards, >but I may read that. And I wonder how he typed that. There may be some way >of guessing based on its structure. Ben Cohen [email protected] Please record this e-mail address in your address book as my permanent e-mail address.