![]() Around the mid-1980s, Bilofsky began working alongside his cousin, Joe Abrams, to create software for the general public. In fact, many of his software programs were sold in Ziploc bags. At the time, Bilofsky catered to a very niche clientele and had very little need for marketing. ![]() ![]() Mavis Beacon’s story begins with the formation of a software company named Software Toolworks, founded by Walt Bilofsky in 1980. What many of them didn’t know was that no such woman existed and the smiling face gracing the cover of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! was a salesperson who had been paid to model for the fictional typing instructor. A lot of those people owed their new typing skills to a woman named Mavis Beacon. ![]() With the rise of personal computers in the final quarter of the twentieth century also arose the need for many people with limited familiarity with the QWERTY keyboard to learn how to type. ![]()
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