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About KIDware
KIDware was founded in
1982 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. At that time, there were many 'toy' computers being
introduced to the market. Names like VIC-20, Commodore 64, Apple II, Texas
Instruments 99/4A, Atari 400, Coleco Adam, Sinclair Timex, and the IBM PC Jr,
were finding their way to market. Of these, we felt the Texas
Instruments machine offered the most to the consumer and began writing and
marketing children's software (in the BASIC language) for that machine.
In 1986, KIDware moved to Seattle, Washington, where we now sit in the shadow of such technology giants as Microsoft, Amazon.Com, Nintendo and Starbucks (OK, it's low-tech, but it is the life blood supplier for programmers). When Microsoft's Visual Basic was introduced in the early 1990's, we decided to rewrite all of our programs (and add many new ones) in that language and market exclusively to Windows users. Our educational software is used by families and schools in all 50 states and in many foreign countries. The comments we receive daily show that users are delighted with the low-cost and high-quality of our product. Such satisfaction has allowed us to stay in business for over 25 years. Over the years, many users asked what language our software was written in and how they could learn more about that language. In mid-1998, we introduced our first Visual Basic tutorial. With each new Visual Basic product, we update our tutorials, the latest covering Visual Basic 2008 and Visual Basic Express. And, we now have tutorials for Visual C#, Visual J# and the popular Java language. Thousands of adults and kids throughout the world are learning programming using our materials. We always appreciate and respond to comments and suggestions from our large user base. In 1998, we joined the e-commerce world with the introduction of the web site you are now visiting. Enjoy your visit to our web site. Let us know what you think. We are sure you will be pleased with any product you buy from us. If you're not, just let us know what we can do to make you a happy customer. Thanks from the folks at KIDware and Clara and Toby our dogs!
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By
the way, a
fully-equipped Texas Instruments computer with 48K (that's K not M) of
memory, a single floppy disk drive that held 100K (again, K not M, not G) of
information, with a 9 inch color monitor cost nearly $2000! Our
software was distributed on audio cassette tapes (the first media used by
Microsoft, by the way) and was sold by most of the major national vendors.
Following this initial success, we migrated our titles to the Commodore 64
and Apple II, and eventually to the IBM PC and Macintosh, still using
BASIC.
