Merchandise Spotlight-Computer Catalogs (1,078 words)

Marketing Computers by Catalog

"Prospects want quarter-inch holes, not quarter-inch drills."

—MBA Magazine

I learned to touch type on an old office Remington in the summer of 1954 at Browne's Business School in Rockville Cen-tre, NY. Today, I can operate a computer keyboard—the very same QWERTY keyboard on which I learned to touch type—at somewhere around 60 w.p.m., maybe 70 w.p.m. if I'm fresh. When I interview people for articles, I use a laptop and can ask questions, maintain eye contact with my subject and my fingers fly over the keyboard. I don't use a tape recorder; I don't need one. I have irritated a lot of my interviewees, but none of them has ever accused me of misquoting them.