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GCFeatured Exhibition

GO Corporation
and the Vision of
Pen-Based Computing

GO Corporation's PenPoint, released in 1991, was the first operating system designed from the ground up for pen input rather than keyboard — pioneering gesture commands, embedded handwriting recognition, and a notebook metaphor that would echo through every stylus and touch system that followed.

GO Corporation and the Vision of Pen-Based Computing
Now on view
Permanent collection
Artifacts
Approx. 30,000
Catalogued
249
Timeline span
1987 — 2007
Recorded events
2001 milestones

Exhibitions
now on view.

One Special Exhibition Drawn directly from the museum's collection of artifacts, magazines, and primary documents.
GC Featured Exhibition
Under Construction GO Corporation and the Vision of Pen-Based Computing

GO Corporation and the Vision of Pen-Based Computing

GO Corporation's PenPoint, released in 1991, was the first operating system designed from the ground up for pen input rather than keyboard — pioneering gesture commands, embedded handwriting recognition, and a notebook metaphor that would echo through every stylus and touch system that followed.

Featured artifacts.

From the collection 18 objects selected at random, drawn from 249 in the permanent collection.
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Palmtop Publications 2000
Palmtop Journal – Issue 28 (Cover)

Palmtop – Issue 28
Volksware, Inc. 1994
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 4, Number 9 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – November, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 9
Stylus Publishing 1992
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 2, Number 2 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – May, 1992 – Volume 2, Number 2
Volksware, Inc. 1997
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 7 Number 1 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – January, 1997 – Volume 7, Number 1
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1992
PenPoint Programming (Cover)

PenPoint Programming (Book)
Pen Computing Magazine 2000
Pen Computing Magazine – November 2000 (Cover)

Pen Computing Magazine – November 2000
Macmillan Digital Publishing USA 1997
MacMillan Plus Pack for PalmPilot Package (Front)

MacMillan Plus Pack for PalmPilot
GO Corporation 1993
GO Corporation - Catalog of Products and Services (Letter)

GO Corporation – Catalog of Products and Services (Letter)
Creative Digital, Inc. 1996

PDA Developers – Volume 4.1 – Jan/Feb 1996
GO Corporation 1991

GO Corporation – The PenPoint Technical Papers
EO, Incorporated 1993
EO, Inc. - Introducing the EO Personal Communicator Brochure (Front)

EO, Inc. – Introducing the EO Personal Communicator (Brochure)
aha! software corporation 1994
aha! software corporation - Corporate Fact Sheet

aha! software corp. – Corporate Fact Sheet
3Com Corporation 1997

3Com PalmPilot Modem
GeoWorks Corporation 1992
GeoWorks, Inc. - GEOS Software Development Kit Concepts - Volume 1, Release 0.8 (Cover)

GeoWorks, Inc. – GEOS Software Development Kit Concepts, Volume 1, Release 0.8 (Documentation)
Volksware, Inc. 1995
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 5, Number 9 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – September, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 9
PennWell Corporation 1999
Portable Design Magazine – November 1999 (Cover)

Portable Design – November 1999
PenWorld, Incorporated 1994
Personal Electronics News - Issue 16 - March/April 1994 (Cover)

Personal Electronics News, Issue 16, March/April 1994
Metrowerks, Inc. 1996
Metrowerks CodeWarrior Tools for Pilot Package (Front)

Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Pilot (Package)

A chronology.

1987 — 2007 Selected from the museum's 2001 catalogued timeline events.
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1987Software
Communication Intelligence Corp. Lists on the Vancouver Stock Exchange
Communication Intelligence Corp. were posted and called for trading on the Vancouver Stock Exchange this morning, at the opening.
1989Organization
GRiD Systems Announces Alan Lefkof Named President
Lefkof succeeds Samuel J. Wiegand, who announced recently that he will take a long-planned retirement at the end of the year. Wiegand…
1994Software
Telescript Technologies at Heart of Next-Generation Electronic Services
General Magic announces Telescript, a breakthrough communication technology that enables people to send electronic agents into the worldwide grid of information highways.
1996Hardware
Digital’s High-Performance StrongARM Microprocessor Gets Microsoft Windows CE Platform Support
The StrongARM SA-110 is the industry's highest-performance low-power, low-cost microprocessor.
2001Software
Metrowerks to Provide Comprehensive Development Tools for the Symbian Platform
Symbian enables rapid wireless device, application and services development through partnership with Metrowerks.
2002Software
Metrowerks Provides Advanced Java Tools for PDAs; CodeWarrior Wireless Studio, PDA Edition, Includes on-Device Debugging Support
Mobile Java application developers are empowered to create professional applications for PDAs with Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Wireless Studio 7, PDA Edition.
2003Software
Dataviz’s Dose-a-Day Dilbert and Dose-a-Day Golf by Gary McCord Now Shipping
DataViz, makers of the #1 selling Palm OS office suite, Documents To Go, announces its new Dose-A-Day apps featuring calendars for PDAs…

The collection.

Browse 249 artifacts Indexed by category from the collection.
    JA

    Japan

    1 item →
    MO

    Modem

    2 items →
    LE

    Lexicus

    4 items →
    PA

    Pamphlet

    1 item →
    BC

    Business Card

    2 items →
    SE

    Service

    1 item →
    HR

    Handwriting Recognition

    7 items →
    CG

    CurtCo Freedom Group

    1 item →
    AP

    Apple

    15 items →
    GC

    GO Corporation

    50 items →
    WI

    Windows

    3 items →
    YI

    Young Ideas

    3 items →
    FT

    France Telecom

    3 items →
    EC

    Event Collateral

    2 items →

    Pen-Based Computing,
    the newsletter.

    Eight volumes · Sixty five issues The original newsletter — every issue digitized in full (soon).
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    Pen-Based Computing – March, 1996 – Volume 6, Number 3

    Volume 6 · Issue 03 Pen-Based Computing – March, 1996 – Volume 6, Number 3

    16 pp
    Pen-Based Computing – June, 1993 – Volume 3, Number 3

    Volume 3 · Issue 03 Pen-Based Computing – June, 1993 – Volume 3, Number 3

    16 pp
    Pen-Based Computing – November, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 9

    Volume 4 · Issue 09 Pen-Based Computing – November, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 9

    16 pp
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