Personal Composer, the world's first music/MIDI software for a desktop computer, was written by Jim Miller, who set up for business in his garage in 1983. Jim advanced the DOS-based program, through several releases, to Version 3.3. He was working on a Windows version at the time of his death in 1991.

Dennis James, a musician and programmer, in 1991 began to develop a music program for Windows. At the time his software was substantially finished, he joined Susan Miller, owner of the company founded by Jim, in a joint venture. The Windows version was released in early 1994.

Today the Personal Composer is recognized as the easiest to learn and use of all the full-featured music software products.

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.... Personal Composer Music Notation and Score Writing Software For Windows

.... Personal Composer is easy enough for the beginner and powerful enough for the most demanding professional

.... Print a score that represents exactly how your music notation will sound when played by other musicians