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2. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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   Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.

3. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Director Jazmin Jones Investigates the ...

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   Mavis Beacon taught the world to type. Starting in the late 1980s, a software program featuring the eponymous instructor drilled computer users on their keyboard skills, selling more than 10 ...

4. Review: 'Seeking Mavis Beacon' tracks down a cyberghost ... - AOL

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   Long before apps and smartphones, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was a program that helped with touch-typing skills. The program's fictional icon spurs an investigation.

5. Mavis Beacon (character) - Wikipedia

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   Mavis Beacon has been seen as groundbreaking for being one of the first computer instruction characters and for being a female African-American embodiment of computer software. Throughout the 1990s, Mavis Beacon served as the virtual typing instructor at numerous U.S. schools. As of 1998, she had instructed 6,000,000 school children. [3]

6. The Software Toolworks - Wikipedia

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   The company was founded by Walt Bilofsky in 1980 out of his Sherman Oaks garage, which he converted into an office, to develop software for the Heathkit H89 microcomputer. It quickly expanded into video games, releasing Airport and MyChess in 1980; other notable games include Chessmaster 2000, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and Mario Is Missing!.

7. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Documentary in the Works at Neon - AOL

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   Beacon’s computer software program helped define the digital age by teaching a generation to type. “Neon has been a perfect home for this project,” Jones said in a statement.