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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
224
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 224 in the permanent collection.
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Palmtop Publications 2001
Palmtop Journal – Issue 35 (Cover)

Palmtop – Issue 35
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 - InkWriter 2.0 for Windows References

aha! software corporation – aha! InkWriter 2.0 for Windows References
Palm, Inc. 2000

Palm Portable Keyboard (V Series)
Casio, Inc. 1998

Casio Cassiopeia A-20 8MB (Brochure)
GO Corporation 1991

GO Corporation – PenPoint Introduction Program of Events (Handout)
GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation PenPointers November 1992 (Newsletter)
EO, Incorporated 1992

EO Incorporated – The World of Messaging: An Introduction to Personal Communication
WPDO 1992

Worldwide PenPoint Developers Organization (WPDO) Meeting Notice – July 23, 1992
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. 2001

Rolodex Electronics Personal Digital Assistant RF-8110
Pen Computing Magazine 2000
Pen Computing Magazine – November 2000 (Cover)

Pen Computing Magazine – November 2000
Stylus Publishing 1991
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 1, Number 2 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – May, 1991 – Volume 1, Number 2
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1992
GO Corporation - PenPoint Application Writing Guide (Cover)

GO Corporation – PenPoint Application Writing Guide
aha! software corporation 1993
aha! InkWriter Version 1.01 - PenPoint Package (Front)

aha! InkWriter Version 1.01 for PenPoint (Package)
aha! software corporation 1994
aha! software corporation - InkWriter 2.0 for Windows Press Kit

aha! software corporation – aha! InkWriter 2.0 for Windows Press Kit
aha! software corporation 1994
aha! InkWriter 2.0 Windows Yellow Maquette (Front)

aha! InkWriter 2.0 for Windows (Yellow Maquette)
Apple Computer, Inc. 1994
Apple Newton MessagePad – Getting Through the Day … (Brochure) – 1

Apple Newton MessagePad Getting Through the Day … (Brochure)
Stylus Publishing 1993
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 3, Number 4 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – August/September, 1993 – Volume 3, Number 4

A chronology.

1987 — 2007 Selected from the museum's 2001 catalogued timeline events.
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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…
1992Organization
Stratton Sclavos Named Vice President, Worldwide Sales of GO Corp.
GO Corp. announces the appointment of Stratton D. Sclavos to the post of vice president of worldwide sales.
1994Software
AST Certifies PenRight! for GRIDPAD 2390
The GRIDPAD 2390 now supports the 1000 plus applications developed in the PenRight! environment for such industries as health care, consumer goods,…
1996Software
CIC Announces Support for Microsoft’s Windows CE Platform
CIC's planned offerings include next generation pen input technologies designed for the unique requirements of handheld devices which have minimal memory, modest…
2001Software
IntelliGolf Adds Wireless, Color and Beaming Features to Palm Computing Handhelds
Karrier Communicationsn announces the shipment of its new IntelliGolf version 5.1 golf scorecard software for Palm Computing handhelds and compatibles.
2002Hardware
Amazon.com Tech Trends; Electronics Trends From Leading Online Electronics Retailer Amazon.com
Handspring Treo fuels 200 percent increase in sales of PDA phones.
2006Software
Hypercom and Communications Intelligence Corp. Team to Combat Fraud and Identity Theft
Under the terms of the agreement, CIC will license its complete SignatureOne suite of biometric and electronic signature products to Hypercom.

The collection.

Browse 224 artifacts Indexed by category from the collection.
    HR

    Handwriting Recognition

    7 items →
    YI

    Young Ideas

    3 items →
    RE

    Rolodex Electronics

    1 item →
    CO

    3Com

    4 items →
    CO

    Conference

    4 items →
    FR

    Franklin

    2 items →
    SE

    Service

    1 item →
    TD

    Technical Document

    14 items →
    PE

    Periodical

    60 items →
    UN

    University

    1 item →
    EI

    EO Incorporated

    21 items →
    KE

    Keyboard

    1 item →
    ZO

    Zoomer

    2 items →
    DA

    Dauphin

    2 items →

    Pen-Based Computing,
    the newsletter.

    Eight volumes · Sixty five issues The original newsletter — every issue digitized in full (soon).
    Pen-Based Computing – November, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 9

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

    16 pp
    Pen-Based Computing – April, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 3

    Volume 4 · Issue 03 Pen-Based Computing – April, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 3

    16 pp
    Pen-Based Computing – December, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 10

    Volume 4 · Issue 10 Pen-Based Computing – December, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 10

    16 pp
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