Back when DOS was the dominate OS I was one of the few people I knew who actually knew their way around DOS. I liked to brag that I could make DOS sit up and do tricks. So for a time I moonlighted as a computer consultant. One of my friends called one day with a problem he was having at work and I tried to talk him through how to do something in DOS and apparently used some terminology he didn't understand and rather than admit that, he managed to delete all the files on a particular drive in the company computer.

I told him to turn off the machine and not let anyone use it until I got there. I grabbed what I called my "bag of tricks" (a pair of floppy disks with all kinds of tools to delve deeply into the software structure of computers. One for ATs and one for ITs) and headed over there.

I sat down at the computer and inserted the correct floppy and booted the computer from it. I then called up the track 0 readout of delete files. As my fingers danced over the keyboard (I'm a touch typist because I took typing in HS) he said "Oh wow." As asked what the oh wow was for and he said he didn't know any one who could actually type. He was in a office where there were a half dozen computer users and none of them could type.

I can't imagine what it's like to hunt and peck while making a lot of entries. Well maybe I can. And that would explain why I shy away from using my phone as a computer. I've never master the two thumb phone texting technique I've seen the younger generation use, so it hunt and peck there.