Here’s the thing: I used a manual typewriter for years and never got RSI. I didn’t know anyone who had an RSI from typing. Then in the 1980s I started working with computers and bingo, we all had RSI. At one point I had my wrists in splints.
Eventually the experts figured out the ergonomics and it wasn’t such an issue, but it was hellish in the early days. It turns out that the movements used for a manual typewriter - smacking the keys right down, carriage return, rolling in a new sheet of paper - weren’t as repetitive as just tick-tacking away on a computer keyboard for hours.
Here’s the thing: I used a manual typewriter for years and never got RSI. I didn’t know anyone who had an RSI from typing. Then in the 1980s I started working with computers and bingo, we all had RSI. At one point I had my wrists in splints.
Eventually the experts figured out the ergonomics and it wasn’t such an issue, but it was hellish in the early days. It turns out that the movements used for a manual typewriter - smacking the keys right down, carriage return, rolling in a new sheet of paper - weren’t as repetitive as just tick-tacking away on a computer keyboard for hours.