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IBM Typing Tutor is an educational program sold by IBM alongside their original IBM PC. The software itself was licensed from Microsoft, and is notable as being one of only two known commercial programs that were sold for the IBM PC on cassette tape. (The other being IBM PC Diagnostics )


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Easy Writer was one of the first word processors for the IBM PC. It was originally written by John Draper AKA "Captain Crunch", with the PC version published by IBM. EasyWriter 1.x was written in the FORTH programming language and, as the story goes, it was ported to the IBM PC in a matter of days. There was also an Apple II version.


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IBM Word Proof is a stand-alone spell checker for the IBM PC with a list of over 125,000 standard English words. It can also find synonyms and anagrams, and features a built-in full screen editor. You may add your own specialized words to its list.


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Part of the IBM Education Series, I Can Be Anything is a program that lets children age eight and older create graphics. The program comes with 250 redesigned shapes grouped by occupation and is useful in stimulating conversation about occupational goals and educational requirements necessary to attain these goals.


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IBM Fixed Disk Organizer is a simple menu program for DOS. It was marketed by IBM for use on their IBM XT. Using this shell, you will no longer have to repeatedly muddle through DOS commands to get to your commonly accessed applications. You can customize your menu items, and organize them in customizable categories. It also lets you set a password for menu items, and you may customize the screen colors. While there were many, many better menuing programs produced for DOS, Fixed Disk Organizer was a standard IBM offering.


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IBM Home Assistant is a bonus product often found with bundles of IBM Filing Assistant and the other IBM Assistant series. This was part of IBM's Assistant office product series for the IBM Personal Computer. This included IBM Writing Assistant, IBM Graphing Assistant, IBM Reporting Assistant, IBM Filing Assistant, IBM Document Retrieval Assistant, IBM Planning Assistant, IBM Assistant Home Solutions, IBM Assistant Accounting Solutions, IBM Assistant Executive Solutions, and later IBM DisplayWrite Assistant.


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Reporting Assistant is a printed report generator for use with IBM Filing Assistant. It is an IBM rebranded version of PFS:Report


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IBM Script/PC is a document formatter utility. It is similar to the mainframe DCF tool for IBM TSO or VM 370 that uses the Script/VS language. Unlike integrated word processors, one creates their document in a separate text editor and manually adds markup commands (called GML or Generalized Markup Language tags). This utility then interprets those commands to produce a formatted document regardless of the printer used. formatters already on the market such as WORDIX+INDIX, ReadiWriter, and MicroScript. for use with IBM Professional Editor, and can work with existing mainframe Script/VS documents.


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IBM Assistant Executive Solutions is a set of pre-designed forms and reports sold for use with IBM Filing Assistant. The forms are intended to help professionals organize appointments, personal and business checking accounts, portfolios, and more.


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IBM Private Tutor is an educational tool for creating, editing, displaying, logging, and reporting on-screen lessons and tutorials. Private Tutor lesson packages. Such titles include: Algebra Tutor, Beyond basic BASIC, Language Skills, Learning to Program in BASIC, Computers and Communications, Learning DOS 2 for Private Tutor, FORTRAN Tutor, Capitalization Skills, Multiplication Tables, Punctuation Skills, Reading Comprehension Skills, Spell Facts (Private Tutor series), Spelling Skills, Vocabulary Building Skills, Word Knowledge Skills, Basic Number Concepts, Math Computation Skills, Preparing for Geometry and Algebra, Solving Math Word Problems, and Writing Private Tutor Courses for the IBM.


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Mailing Labels Edition is a member of the IBM Personal Decision Series that provides general purpose mailing label functionality to users of IBM PDS DATA Edition.


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This demonstration illustrates how the IBM Business Management Series and Personal Decision Series products handles a company's management needs.


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Part of the IBM Electric Literature Series, Electric Poet is a creative authoring system targeted at literary community-writers, teachers, and students to create presentations and lessons. Its documents are referred to as "poems".


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Comma Cat, part of the IBM Education Family, is an educational program that explains and illustrates the proper use of punctuation. The Comma Cat poems are based on a book of poems written by Dr. Edmund Skellings. The Comma Cat poems address the spirit of punctuation and also are models for similar electric poems that you may create.


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Dictionary Dog, part of the IBM Education Family, is an educational program that teaches children how to alphabetize and use a dictionary.


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IBM Personal Computer Sort Version 1.00 is a highly optimized and flexible high speed flat file database sorting and merging facility. It is an IBM OEM version of the Microsoft Sort programmer's utility. It operates using a programmable interpreter, supports ASCII and EBCIDIC, and can be used standalone or from any programming language.


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The StarProof Bridge is a utility that enabled IBM Word Proof to work with WordStar documents.


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IBM Network+ Edition is an add on that enables network resource and data sharing between Personal Decision Series users on a local area network.


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Released by IBM in 1984, TopView was a text-mode windowed multitasker for the IBM PC, XT, and AT computer. It featured preemptive multitasking, text-based windowed task sessions, overlapping windows, and supports the use of a mouse. In part, it was one of the reasons why overlapping windows were added to Microsoft Windows 2.0. TopView was later overtaken by DesqView, OS/2, and Windows. For more information, see the Topview 1.00 Software Spotlight.


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IBM Filing Assistant is a data entry form designer and database. "The file designer and data source for the IBM Assistant series can help save time by reducing paperwork. Information filed on diskettes can be accessed and modified within a few quick keystrokes". IBM Filing Assistant is a re-branded version of PFS:File. It was sometimes sold with an optional set of templates called IBM Assistant Executive Solutions.


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Exploring the IBM PC Network is an animated guide that demonstrates the general use of IBM's PC Network software.


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FileCommand is an alternate DOS shell from IBM. The user interface is based on the IBM 3081/3084 mainframe VM/CMS Fulist/Filelist tool. It provides an on-screen file list, and a command area, but uses its own command set. Although advertised as friendlier DOS shell for general PC users, most users would likely find it confusing unless they had prior experience with Fulist.


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IBM Document Retrieval Assistant is a tool that enables you to easily search through a large number of documents for specified keywords. It is designed to work with documents produced with any of the IBM Assistant Series applications.


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Personal Computer Organizer is a complete menu-driven system designed to help install, organize, and integrate a wide variety of applications on the IBM PC. This product appears to have been targeted mainly at IBM business customers that use IBM's high-end PC software.


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IBM Drawing Assistant is an easy to use drawing program that resembles Apple MacPaint.