How I went from handwriting my work to dictating it in five short decades

In as little as five short decades, the world of communication has made great strides. I can recall when I was taking courses at school and then at University of Maryland, I initially hand-wrote my coursework because personal computers had not yet become commonplace.

When I was in junior high school I learned to type on a manual typewriter because that was all the school had to offer me:-

When I joined the United States Air Force when I was 18 years old, the office had an electric typewriter, but as my job, being a Radio Relay Equipment Remairman, did not require me to type, I rarely if ever used it:-

It wasn’t until the middle 1980’s, when I purchased my own computer, that I had regular access to a word processor. The first computer that I bought for myself was a Commodore 128:-