Adrienne Hankin, public relations director for tech company Mindscape told the 'New York Times' in 1998: "Mavis is the Betty Crocker of software" ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Mavis Beacon, of “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing” fame, was never a real person; her image, however, became an icon of the software created by Software Toolworks. Les Crane, a former disc jockey and host ...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. When Sega first released The House of the Dead in arcades in 1996, and subsequently onto the much-loved Dreamcast console a year or two later, there were few ...

I'm not sure how it's possible to keep refining typing tutor software but we've reached Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 so Mindscape obviously knows something I don't. The Mavis Beacon series is the ...

Years ago, back in the days when there were "mainframe" computers but very few "home" computers, a typing teacher brought her brand of instruction to the home-computer monitor. It was late 1987, and ...

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 ...

Touch-typing – or keyboarding, as it is more commonly called nowadays – involves using all the fingers in a standard pattern to hit the correct keys without looking at them. Back in the day, typing ...