Two typing books in my collection are products of the 1980s:

• On the front cover of Typewriting for a Keyboard Career is an  Olympia ES 110:

(Copyright 1982 McGraw-Hill Book Company (UK) Limited/ Copyright 1983 McGraw-Hill Book Company Australia Pty Limited)

• On the front cover of High-Powered Typewriting Drills is an Olivetti ET 116:

(Pearson Education Limited, Copyright Elma Whittle, First published in Great Britain 1965/Second Edition 1986)

“Power Typing”: An apt synonym for touch typing, especially when that “power” is aided by an electrical charge.

Times change and technology moves on. Forward-thinking publishers were more than happy to update subsequent editions of their typing books to reflect whatever happened to be the prevalent typing technology of the time. Thru the electric “golf-ball” era …

The electronic “daisy wheel” era …

And today’s era of laptop and desktop computers, wherein “keyboarding” is commonly used in place of “typewriting”:

Would you reject power steering when it comes to your daily drive or blame that fuel-efficient car of yours for being made of plastic? No, of course not.