Typing is rapidly being replaced by the computer based
word processor.  This trend results from the fact typing is
far less cost effective than is word processing.  With word
processing software directly involved with the capabilities
of the computer, it is only a matter of time before a total
halt occurs in typewriter production.  Quite possibly there
is no better example of technology's great influence on our
nation's economy and society.  Although the keyboard of the
typewriter is also built into the computer keyboard, typing
is an obsolete term.  Keyboarding describes computer entry.
     Also used to describe microcomputer data entry are the
words keying and key entry.  Being typewriter connected, we
should expect the long used words typing and typewriting to
expire quite slowly.  Keyboarding, or keying, describes the
key operation of all sections of the computer keyboard.  In
contrast, typing refers to the operation of a limited group
of keys that make up the typewriter keyboard.  The computer
keyboard consists of the following key groups:  the numeric
keypad, the alphabetic keys, the cursor movers, and special
function keys.  Computer keyboards thus have four sections.