[ecpottinger]

And in contrast, here in Ontario in the late 1980s I worked in a computer store, and repeatly was told by parents that they got computers for their kids so they could print out homework because their handwritting was so hard to read.

A number of those parents claimed to me that their kids now got better marks because the teachers could now read the work with ease, whereas they often struggled to read the hand written stuff.

Note: Those same teachers still had problems reading the 8/9 pin printouts, but once the move to double striking/24 pin printers they had no problem. This suggests to me, that a lot of the teachers had eye-sight problems.