The keyboard went through several iterations, including one where letters were arranged alphabetically, but the frequency of use for some popular letters led to frequent jams so the QWERTY keyboard ...

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. If you know this phrase, I know where you were in high school. You were in typing class with me, back when it was still called typing and not “keyboarding ...

Push-pull, push-pull, push-pull. Around and around and around. My pencil flew over the paper, trying to comply with the teacher’s exhortations. Those were some of the penmanship drills that I ...

One of the classes taken by mostly girls in Pleasantville High School was typing class. This is a photo of Miss Edna Holloman’s homeroom in 1949. Pictured (in no particular order) are Helen Tomlin, ...

Back in the mid-1950s, I decided to take an elective course in typing while a student at Sulzberger Junior High School. Now, I cannot tell you why I took this course. After all, it was not a course ...

Public schools in Orange County should make every student learn keyboarding — typing for those of us of a certain age — in middle school, said Bill Sublette, chairman of the Orange County School Board ...