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Gail P Sherman
Mar 30, 2026
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Despite having taken a typing class in eighth grade — on a manual typewriter — my typing skills still needed some work by the time I got my first PC in the early 90s. (I swear I am not a hundred years old, despite how this sounds.) I passed on Mavis Beacon and improved my skills using Mario Teaches Typing, with a rare appearance by Mario on MS-DOS and W…

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