Software, Typing Tutor
date: label: date made
content: 1980
name: label: maker
content: Microsoft Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The firm of Microsoft began production with a version of the programming language BASIC, published on paper tape for the Altair microcomputer in 1975. By 1979, it has a Consumer Products Division which was preparing educational products for the home market. According to the manual, the program "Typing Tutor" was written for the TRS-80 by Dick Ainsworth and Al Baker, and coded by Leah O'Connor, all of The Image Producers, Inc. in Northbrook, Ilinois. It was designed to monitor the progress of users constantly as they learned to type and to use this information in creating new lessons. The program was distributed on tape cassettes.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Microsoft, <I>Microsoft Typing Tutor</I>, Bellevue, Washington: Microsoft Computer Products, 1979.
label: Description
content: https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Microsoft_Typing_Tutor, accessed May 15, 2024.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Washington, Bellevue
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3098.088
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3098.088
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: software
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 11/16 in; 6.985 cm x 10.795 cm x 1.74625 cm