Nancy wrote to Daryl --

the Bahamas are being hit hard,

I once had the idea of retiring there. The weather and all seemed
perfect. Except for the occasional "wind storm".

Perhaps our keyboards are older and therefore built better

Ah, remember the days when needing a new keyboard and the hunt for a
place that even sold them? And the prices! Sheesh.

all the keys are still quite visiible on my keyboard

One time during my deep cleaning I ran a damp rag of spic-and-span and
bleach over the keyboard to clean off the keys that aren't often used and shortly after half of the letters disappeared. :)

I've become somewhat of a touch typist

I am as well, provided I keep looking at the screen.
Just remember those home keys! :)

She put a piece of paper over the keyboard so that I couldn't see the keys

any more

When I used a typewriter something I wrote often looked like I had the keyboard covered. :)
I learned to type on a upright manual and never got the hang of using an electric. I have a bad habit of resting my fingers on the keys and often it would come out like thisss.

on a computer, in a nice text editor, it's easy enough to fix the typoes on

the fly

When I got my Commie in the mid '80s I wrote people that soon they would
get letters from me without typo's.
Ah, the days of snail mail.
I used to be in regular correspondence with about a dozen people and each letter was individual (adding/subtracting things of interest to that
person). And typing basically the same thing over and over and over...
Now its just cut and paste.
Life is good.
Joe
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Joe,

the Bahamas are being hit hard,

I once had the idea of retiring there. The weather and all seemed
perfect. Except for the occasional "wind storm".

It's the worst one the Bahamas ever had experienced. The airport is
under 5 feet of water.

Ah, remember the days when needing a new keyboard and the hunt for a
place that even sold them? And the prices! Sheesh.

Really.

One time during my deep cleaning I ran a damp rag of spic-and-span and
bleach over the keyboard to clean off the keys that aren't often used and JM>shortly after half of the letters disappeared. :)

Oops. :P

I've become somewhat of a touch typist

I am as well, provided I keep looking at the screen.
Just remember those home keys! :)

Plus, the classic 3 fingered salute. <G> Now, instead of a reboot, it
brings up an options window. :P

I learned to type on a upright manual and never got the hang of using an
electric. I have a bad habit of resting my fingers on the keys and often it JM>would come out like thisss.

I've used both, but the computer keyboard is easier to work with.

When I got my Commie in the mid '80s I wrote people that soon they would
get letters from me without typo's.
Ah, the days of snail mail.

And, when you didn't have to wait forever for the mail to arrive.

Now its just cut and paste.
Life is good.

This is true...although you find some who have to just retype everything...they want to do it the hard way.

Daryl

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Re: Keyboards and typing (was
By: Daryl Stout to JOE MACKEY on Thu Sep 05 2019 09:29:00

the Bahamas are being hit hard,

I once had the idea of retiring there. The weather and all seemed
perfect. Except for the occasional "wind storm".

It's the worst one the Bahamas ever had experienced. The airport is
under 5 feet of water.

there are several airports on the islands out there... well, there were... are you speaking of Grand Bahama International Airport (MYGF) in Freeport? i've seen reports of 6 to 10 feet of water covering the area... not sure if that includes all of the 700+ acres belonging to the airport, though... live pictures i saw looked pretty deep, though...


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Mark,

there are several airports on the islands out there... well, there were... a ML>you speaking of Grand Bahama International Airport (MYGF) in Freeport? i've ML>seen reports of 6 to 10 feet of water covering the area... not sure if that ML>includes all of the 700+ acres belonging to the airport, though... live ML>pictures i saw looked pretty deep, though...

I think you're right. The water likely rose after I saw that first
report. There's practically nothing left in some areas.

Daryl

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