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Generations learned to type using the Mavis Beacon software—and had no idea she wasn’t a real person. But what about the model used for her image, who vanished from the public eye? Editor-at-Large, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mavis Beacon taught the world to type. Starting in the late 1980s, a software program featuring the eponymous instructor drilled ...

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Mavis Beacon's Typing Tutor (version 11.0) is arguably the best of its type (geddit?) on the market. Having installed and run this software I feel it is the benchmark other typing tutors should be ...

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 million ...

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