I didn't get a personal computer till my freshman year in HS (1994). But before then, my reports in middle school were all done on my typewriter -- I think it was a Smith-Corona? Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's what it was called. It was an electric typewriter with the neat auto-correction feature. I still used it in HS, especially when it came time to fill out college applications.

Keyboarding classes in HS were done my sophomore year, but those were the days of black screens, green cursors, and MS-DOS.

We have an electric typewriter here at work that is rarely ever used, except when forms need to be filled in that way. I must admit that I have to reacquaint myself with it most of the time...especially with the color coding things that perform different functions.