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2-Bit Software specialized in programs that ran in 2K of RAM.

[Sandra Hutchins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Hutchins), one of the principals, was a computer scientist whose area of expertise was speech recognition. [Jan Zimmerman](https://www.amazon.com/Jan-Zimmerman/e/B001IGSNPE), the other principal, was a business and marketing executive who wrote several books on internet marketing.

Hutchins and Zimmerman went on to Emerson & Stern Associates, where Hutchins’ work in speech recognition gained the company [numerous SBIR awards](https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/156478).

Two of their cassette tapes are in the [Smithsonian Museum’s collections](https://archive.org/details/smithsonianyears1985smit/page/340/mode/2up?q=hutchins).