<p>TACT is generally recognized as a historically important text analysis tool within the Digital Humanities. Although no longer in wide use, it is known to have been used as a teaching tool in undergraduate literature courses into the mid-1990s. More information about the tool and its use can be found in the following articles:</p> <p>Armstrong, Gudya. \"Computer-Assisted Literary Analysis Using the TACT Text-Retrieval Program.\" <em>Computers &amp; Texts</em> 11.8 (1996). <a href=\"http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/publish/comtxt/ct11/armstron.html\" target=\"_blank\">Web</a>.</p> <p>Hawthorne, Mark. \"The Computer in Literary Analysis: Using <em>TACT</em> with Students.\" <em>Computers and the Humanities</em> 28.1 (1994): 19-27. <a href=\"http://www.jstor.org/stable/30200307\">Web</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>More information about TACT as a text analysis tool is available via the official guides. The former is maintained by the Modern Language Association as a free PDF:</p> <p>Lancashire, Ian, John Bradley, Willard McCarty, Michael Stairs and T. R. Wooldridge. <em>Using TACT With Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools: Version 2.1 for MS-DOS and PC DOS</em>. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996. <a href=\"http://www.mla.org/store/CID7/PID236\" target=\"_blank\">Web</a>.</p> <p>McCarty, Willard. \"Text Analysis Computing Tools: a brief guide.\" <em>Centre for Computing in the Humanities</em>. 1993.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Information on ARRAS' relationship to TACT is available in:</p> <p>Centre for Computing in the Humanities. <em>Tools for Humanists, 1989: Software &amp; Hardware: Fair Guide</em>. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto (1989).</p>