GO Corporation Getting Started with PenPoint (Version 1.0)
This is the original getting started guide included with the PenPoint operating system.
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Artifact Details
GO Corporation
United States
English
1992
Color, printed, saddle-stitched document.
Sections:
- Using Menus
- Using Gestures
- Setting the Handwriting Style
- Using the Table of Contents
- Writing and Editing Text
- Scrolling and Turning Pages
- Moving Text
- Using the Software Keyboard
- Using Help
- Creating a Document
- Where to Go from Here
- Gesture Profiles
- Glossary
- Comments
8.5" x 11" (30 pages)
045-00200
4ce00a05aaa6883a
1992
Acquired from developer
2020-06-14
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Media
GO Corporation – Introducing PenPoint (1991)
GO Corporation used this video to promote the developer release of the PenPoint OS in 1991. PenPoint was one of the first operating systems designed specifically to run on mobile devices. Featuring: Dr. Norm Vincent (State Farm), Terry Conner (EDS), Phillipe Kahn (Borland), Jack Blount (Novell), David Reed (Lotus), Alan Lefkof (Grid), Vern Raburn (Slate), Dan Bricklin (Slate), and Jim Cannavino (IBM).
PenPoint Demonstration 1991
GO Corporation’s 1991 promotional video about their pen-based operating system, aimed at software developers. Includes an extensive demo by Robert Carr, architect of the operating system, where he shows the notebook metaphor, their use of gestures, the embedded document architecture, and more.
