I`m from Taiwan
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It is really cool to get some light background on everyone - even better that we come from all parts of the globe and differing upbringings/religions etc etc, and yet i am sure we would ALL get along in a room together as we share this same love/passion. Unity in Music. 
Thanks guys for responding ā (I just started Module 4) - i actually retained some of the music theory thus far too! haha
Have a great day
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You too!
Everybody have a great day. For you Aussies, and those in Japan and places on the other side of the globe, hope the day is/was good, have a great night.
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Thatās awesome! We had a similar model and also a super modern one with sculpted keys and very little space between the keys. I would sometimes slip off the flat tops and jam my finger down between the keys on the original style. Taking typing class with speed drills is something Iām really glad I did. Almost everyone who walks past my desk at work makes a comment about typing speed. We never did get an electric typewriter. My first āprinterā was a teletype machine connected to an Apple II+. (In case anyone ever wonders why the designators for serial COM ports have tty in their names, itās because serial ports were originally connected to teletype (tty) machines)
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I still have an Apple II in my cellar.
My dad wanted to throw it away and I stopped him: āNo! You canāt throw it away. I know itās old but by now itās too old to throw away.ā - Iāve even seen it displayed in a museum. Okay it was about computers but stillā¦
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I didnāt keep the machine, but I did keep the disks with all the programs I wrote. At one point I thought about finding a machine on eBay to run them again for fun. I was really into the EAMON adventure games and would design new adventures for it and modify the engine to expand the command set. I had written a love compatibility program, but I couldnāt get anyone in my high school in the 80s to use it. So, I made it more generic and open ended where it would gather information and accumulate information about people (inspired by the LISA). It would then look for other people with similar interests and suggest them as friends. The disks were destroyed in a fire not long ago and along with it my claims of having invented social media, ha!
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Back in the 80s I had a game on my computer named āWord Invadersā very similar to the old video game in bars etc. āSpace Invadersā. Instead of aliens dropping bombs, they dropped words which you had to type before they hit you. The words became longer and longer, and dropped faster with each level.
Thatās how I got to typing 80-90 WPM.
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I just tried to type lyrics along with the song while in IRC chat as teen.
That and one time I cleaned my keyboard by removing all the keys and then I didnāt know how to put them back in. I realized I could pull up a picture but
a) I had fun times trying to write one-letter sentences on my keyboard with the keys
b) I learned the position of the keys by heart after 1 week of ātyping i, while trying to type pā
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Way off topic, think we need a keyboard thread in the lounge maybe??
Lol, that didnāt go over so well with the Masks.
I better stay out of it I guess.
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I donāt think anyone here feels so strongly about computer keyboards 
I was afraid that Iām annoying people with my talk about it here but there seems to be sufficient interest in the topic for a thread. Maybe we could combine it with āhow do you type/learn to type/what keyboard do you useā?
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Not so at all, in fact I like reading about these ultra nerdy things, some that are relics of my past.
I just wanted to throw out a friendly reminder that a thread was being hijacked.
No harm, it happens, it usually takes someone outside the conversation to point this out, so I did.
Again, not annoying to me, just there is a better way to keep it going.
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lolā¦its all good. (but ya, thanks @T_dub ) - it was nice getting to know where yaāll are/were from. ā¦then we got sideswiped by a keyboard. haha - take note, wear a helmet - safety first. 
Feel free to keep posting locations and mini enlightenments if anyone wants too. Im enjoying it.
Thanks everyone - have a great day/night
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Itās partially my fault for posting a photo of my old typewriter. Maybe @JoshFossgreen can move the keyboard posts to a new thread?? 
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ā¦ the what now?
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ā¦ just kidding. I am from the same vintage as 25 pin female RS232 plugs to hook up VT100 terminals to a minicomputer. 
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nah - its totally fine. All good.
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A fate that, eventually, all threads must face.
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@peterhuppertz, you just made my day!!! 
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ā¦ wow, that was easy!
(wot did I do?)
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You know why, donāt play coy 
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