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

Publisher: GO Corporation
Place Manufactured: United States
Language: English

Part Number: 045-00200
Date: 1992

Description: Color, printed, saddle-stitched document.

Contents: 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


Size: 8.5" x 11" (30 pages)

Condition: New

About the Company

GO Corporation was founded in 1987 to create portable computers, an operating system, and software with a pen-based user interface. It was famous not only for its pioneering work in pen-based computing, but also for being one of the most well-funded start-up companies of its time.

Its founders were Jerry Kaplan, Robert Carr, and Kevin Doren. Mr. Kaplan subsequently chronicled the history of the company in his book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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