Keyboard Fun Over the Years

I first learned to use a manual typewriter in 1960.  I think it was a Hermes 3000, purchased by my parents.  I became keyboard proficient and could type up to 55 words a minute with a high degree of accuracy by 1961.  I used a portable manual typewriter, office typewriter, or electric typewriter in high school, college, and at my part-time City of Commerce Library job from 1961-69.  





In 1970, I volunteered for and was assigned to work as a Personnel Specialist at the Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.  I coded IBM cards with personnel information.  In 1971, I was working at Keesler in Officer Personnel Information Services and using a Burroughs online computer system and a computer keyboard (no mouse).  I was honorably discharged from the U. S. Air Force in 1973 with the rank of E5.  

Keesler was part of Air Training Command, and trained upwards 15,000 Air Force personnel each month primarily in electronics used by the U.S. Air Force.  I met with officers and enlisted men on their personnel business, and helped them with processing in and out of Keesler for temporary duty training.  At that time, 1970-1973, the U.S. Air Force was extremely busy in the destructive Vietnam War.  


From 1973 until 2017 I was employed where some kind of computer keyboard or electric typewriter was at my workstation, office, or at nearby locations.  I was employed as a librarian, supervisor, manager, coordinator, adminstrator, writer, technology and media services supervisor, teacher ... with my fingers on dozens of keyboards over the decades.  

The keyboard and mouse have been my interaction with computer software.  I still have a great computer set up at home in 2020.   

So, a keyboard under my fingers controlling computer software or mechanical typewriters has been an essential part of my educational life, scholarly life, librarianship life, community service life, employment life, professional life, creative life, or daily life from 1960-2020.  The skillfull, speedy, and effective use of keyboards and mice controlling computer software is critical and essential to succes in business in 2020.  

In 2020, I now use a Logitech MK 710 wireless keyboard and mouse in my home office connected to a Dell Inspiron desktop computer running Windows 10.  

  




Some of my webpage reading Keyboard Shortcut Favorites are:

Ctrl + F    Search the document to Find something

Ctrl + +   Increases the size of the font displayed on the screen for html documents

Ctrl + -    Decreases the size of the font displayed on the screen for html documents

Ctrl + P    Prints the document displaying on the screen

Windows Symbol + E   Opens the File Manager Explorer