Pen-Based Computing – August, 1991 – Volume 1, Number 4

This is an original edition of Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems, the premier industry newsletter for consumer and industrial stylus-based computing systems.

Issues of the newsletter are in the permanent collection of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California (donated by Xerox PARC, a charter subscriber).

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Artifact Details

Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Place Manufactured: United States
Language: English

ISSN: 1054-4011
Date: August, 1991

Description: Sixteen pages on tan saddled-stitched paper.

Contents: In this issue:
  • PenDOS: Making DOS Pen-Aware
  • Notes From The Editors
  • Conference Report: Pen Computing 1991
  • Displays and Batteries are Glaring Weak Spots in Pen-Based Systems
  • Pi Systems Hopes Pen-Based Is Just What the Doctor Ordered
  • Wireless Communications Starting to Come On
  • The Race Heats Up
  • GRiDPad Application Development
  • Is There a Blackbird in Your Future?
  • Taking a Risk on RISC
  • Odds and Ends


Size: 8.5" x 11" (16 pages)

Condition: New

About the Company

Stylus Publishing was founded in January, 1991 by Nicholas Baran and Jonathan Erickson, two veteran technology editors. Baran was former west coast bureau chief for BYTE magazine and editor of Baran’s Tech Letter (a newsletter covering the NeXT computer platform). Erickson was the long-time editor of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, the leading software development magazine of the time.

Originally published quarterly, the newsletter was acquired by Volksware, Inc. in December 1993, evolving initially into a bi-monthly and later full monthly publication. The newsletter was published and edited by former contributing editor John Jerney.

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