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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. Mavis Beacon (character) - Wikipedia

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   Mavis's name comes from a combination of Mavis Staples (one of the software developer's favorite singers) and the word beacon (an allusion to her role as a guide to typing). [1] [3] There have been several models chosen to represent the confident efficiency of Mavis Beacon; her image changes to represent a "modern professional typing instructor ...

4. ‘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 ...

5. 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.

6. The Software Toolworks - Wikipedia

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   The product, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, was developed by Bilofsky, Duffy and Norman Worthington from Bilofsky's home in six months, with Duffy often working more than 140 hours per week. The team aimed at making the application more fun to keep users engaged, thus it incorporated large quantities of text it deemed interesting, generated ...

7. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: Thoughtful Doc Pursues an ...

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   The quest meant to find Mavis Beacon, but it is also about the filmmakers and what matters most to them. Jones shares how such a single-minded pursuit can consume one’s life, while the film ...