A touch-typing course, nicely presented with a video-type box containing cassette, instructions and a rather small certificate to award yourself on completing the course. According to the blurb, you can achieve a speed of 40 words a minute in 24 hours, a claim I wasn't able to test as I can already touch type.

There are 58 lessons, starting with simple letter drills and advancing rapidly through lists of words to sentences and paragraphs. Each lesson must be typed without any mistakes - though you can backspace to make corrections - within a fairly stiff time limit. After each attempt you are informed of your speed and the number of mistakes.

Numbers and symbols other than the commonest punctation marks are not covered. The shift key is only used for question marks; all letters are typed in upper case, as is usual on the Dragon.

The program loads data files from tape at regular intervals, and I found difficulty in selecting the right volume level for this. Otherwise, it worked well.

M.N.