What you're describing isn't a typewriter, it's a daisywheel printer with a computer keyboard bolted on front. I learned to type on a manual typewriter in the

What you're describing isn't a typewriter, it's a daisywheel printer with a computer keyboard bolted on front. I learned to type on a manual typewriter in the 1970s. Unless you had somewhere north of $1000 for an IBM Selectric, or somewhat less for a second-tier knock-off, that's what you got. (Ordinary electric typewriters were basically a manual typewriter -- like the sim -- with motor assist for the type arms. They didn't jam as much and were lighter on the fingers and gave more even imprints on the paper, but still ...) The jamming is a side-effect of hitting keys too close together so that the type arm from the first key struck doesn't have time to fall back and clear the space the second type arm is trying to move into. Experienced manual typists learned not just touch-typing but the correct rhythm to minimize the time between keystrokes without quite jamming the machine.