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When I learned to type back in the 1940s nearly every typewriter was a manual like my dad's Underwood. There were a few electrics around at that time but they were few and far between. I think the first electric machine was called the Woodstock but I might have that confused with the famous hippie concert in New York which came later. Electrics didn't gain wide use, however, until IBM got into the act. Their typewriters dominated the business world for at least a couple of decades before computers took over. The upshot is that I learned to type by literally pounding the keys, which was necessary with most manual typewriters. I continued to type that way when I switched to electrics although it wasn't necessary. Long after everybody at the News was using McIntosh computers I was still hammering away on my IBM in the back corner, fighting off Lori Nardini's increasingly-menacing demands that I switch to a computer so she wouldn't have to retype my stuff. The day I gave in to...
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