What do you remember about CSEs from school?
Feb 5th 2015 | 7:51 am
#76
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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
I was Int Corps initially. Why they required the ability to type is beyond me. The guys in the signals corps were the ninja typists. During periods of boredom on exercise we would pick a page of a novel and see who could finish first. They slaughtered me every time.
He wasn't Carol Vorderman's father was he? 
Feb 5th 2015 | 8:45 am
#77
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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
My parents bought me a touch typing computer program that seemed obsessed with using poems. I remember that typing out Shelley's Ozymandias with my eyes closed was a somewhat challenging task. I don't suppose people do that to their kids anymore, it's just assumed you'll pick it as a matter of course.
Feb 5th 2015 | 9:25 am
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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
In the days of electric typewriters I could type over 100 words per min. I have RSA I, II and II with distinction in typing. The keyboard on my iPad does my head in. 
Feb 5th 2015 | 11:27 am
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Re: What do you remember about CSEs from school?
After a number of years in QC, I've painstakingly learned to speak French-from-France (local classification) deliberately badly. And readjust accordingly when in France. It's a case of 2 countries "separated by a common language" 
