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First of its kind

Question: Peter Norton has called Jim Knopf "The father of shareware". What was Jim!s first shareware program?

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Answer: PC-File

Knopf published software under the pseudonym Jim Button because he considered that name "more marketable". Knopf means "button" in German.

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