Software, ProKey by CE Software
date: label: date made
content: 1992
name: label: maker
content: Bishops Antiques
notes: label: Description
content: This software program, ProKey, was sold by CE Software, Inc., for DOS users. The package includes one 3.25" disk, a user manual, product guide, letter to the user, registration card, and a support pamphlet. This software allowed the user to automate routine tasks by recording keyboard and mouse actions (up to 1,009 keystrokes or characters) in a file called a macro. The software came with a wide-range of predefined macros which the user could edit. ProKey was first released in 1982 by RoseSoft, Inc. for $75 ($196 in 2019 dollars). In 1992 the company was purchased by CE Software Inc. of Bellevue, Washington. They released this version for $99 ($186 in 2019 dollars).
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: “Network World,” September 28, 1992.
label: Description
content: “InfoWorld,” November 4, 1991.
label: Description
content: “PC Magazine,” November 1982.
label: Description
content: Kelly, Brian W. and Grimes, Dennis J., 1985, “DEC Microcomputer Directory,” Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Iowa, West Des Moines
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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: 2012.3098.018
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3098.018
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3098
label: serial number
content: 100436
objectType: label: Object Name
content: software
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 23.1775 cm x 19.685 cm x 1.5875 cm