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| Authored by: JamesK on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 08:23 AM EDT |
Back in the late '60s & early '70s, when I was in high school, it was almost
exclusively girls in the typing classes. My first work experience with a
keyboard was when I was a bench tech, overhauling Teletype machines. Later on,
I took a typing class at the local high school, but by that time I already had
my first computer. Back in those days, you rarely saw a man at a typewriter in
an office and when you did, he'd be doing "hunt 'n peck" typing.
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- Ah - the good ol' days - true madness. Some places women are not allowed to drive (today) n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 08:47 AM EDT
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| Authored by: ChrixOne on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 04:47 PM EDT |
Sexism? Balderdash.
It was a pure class/rank kind of thing.
I worked at a place where we had (internal) email by the mid seventies. The
professional types (programmers and analysts) all used it. On the user side it
was the 'executive' types who just plain wouldn't use it. They were too
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 09:48 PM EDT |
The notion that the Grid computer was unsucessful because keyboarding was
perceived to be a woman's job is utter nonsense. If that was the case, then why
did so many other computers succeed? It was not the weight either, because
everything else was heavier.
I worked in an engineering group at the time the Grid came out. We had IBM 126
keypunches, teletypes connected to a Control Data mainframe, and VT-100
terminals connected to a VAX. There was no reluctance to use this equipment by
any of the male or female engineers. A Grid salesman come out to demonstrate it.
We did not buy any Grids. The price may have been the reason.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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