Microsoft Typing Tutor

Typing Tutor is one of the first educational products to be released by the consumer products division of Microsoft.

Development
Typing Tutor was written by Dick Ainsworth and Al Baker and coded in BASIC by Leah O'Connor; at the time all were employees of The Image Producers, Inc. The manual was written by Dottie Hall.

Releases
The program was published by Microsoft Consumer Products on cassette tape in 1979 for the TRS-80. Versions for the Apple II and IBM Personal Computer were released in 1980 and 1981, respectively. The PC version is notable for being one of only two commercial programs ever released by IBM on cassette, the other being IBM PC Diagnostics. It was also released for the PC on floppy disks. It became one of the bestselling educational software products.