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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
242
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 242 in the permanent collection.
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Stylus Publishing 1992
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 2, Number 4 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – October, 1992 – Volume 2, Number 4
aha! software corporation 1994
aha! software corp - InkWriter 2.0 Windows Screen Shots and Captions (Document)

aha! software corp. – InkWriter 2.0 for Windows Screen Shots and Captions (Document)
Thaddeus Computing, Inc. 2000

Handheld PC Magazine Windows CE Buyer’s Guide 2000 (Catalog)
GO Corporation 1992
GO Corporation - GO Fax Brochure (Front Cover)

GO Corporation – GO Fax Brochure
Volksware, Inc. 1995
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 5, Number 7 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – July, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 7
Pilot Island Publishing, Inc. 1997

Palm Goodies Vol. 1
Volksware, Inc. 1996
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 6, Number 6 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – June, 1996 – Volume 6, Number 6
Apple Computer, Inc. 1994

Apple Newton MessagePad Handbook
GO Corporation 1993

GO Corporation – Regis McKenna Clipping Alert (March 22, 1993)
Volksware, Inc. 1994
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 4, Number 1 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – January, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 1
WPDO 1993

Worldwide PenPoint Developers Organization (WPDO) Flyer – 1993
Palmtop Publications 1998
Palmtop Journal – Issue 20 (Cover)

Palmtop Journal – Issue 20
aha! software corporation 1993
aha! InkWriter Application Disk Version 1.01 - PenPoint 386 Hobbit (Front)

aha! InkWriter Application Disk Version 1.01 (PenPoint 386/486 and Hobbit)
Young Ideas Software Design Services 1993

Young Ideas The Rogue PenApps Workbook (Document)
Stylus Publishing 1991
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 1, Number 4 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – August, 1991 – Volume 1, Number 4
GO Corporation 1993

GO Corporation PenPointers April 1993 (Newsletter)
Palmtop Publications 2001
Palmtop Journal – Issue 34 (Cover)

Palmtop – Issue 34
Volksware, Inc. 1995
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 5, Number 11 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – November, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 11

A chronology.

1987 — 2007 Selected from the museum's 2001 catalogued timeline events.
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1987Hardware
GO Corporation Founded by Jerry Kaplan, Robert Carr, and Kevin Doren
August 14, 1987 — No press release was issued.
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…
1990Software
Slate Developing Set of Applications for GO Operating Environment
Slate Corp., the first company founded expressly to develop software for pen-based computers, announces that it will publish a set of applications…
1992Software
Motorola’s WaveGuide 2.0 Supports Microsoft Windows, Multiple Wireless Networks
Motorola's RadioWare Solutions Group announces a new version of its WaveGuide software developers' toolkit, adding support for Microsoft's Windows 3.1 environment and…
2000Publication
Sixth Annual Mobility Awards Nominations Update
Leading press and analysts will select the top mobile products at the Sixth Annual Mobile Insights Conference, March 5-7, 2000, in Palm…
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.
2007Hardware
Apple Reinvents the Phone With iPhone
Apple introduces iPhone, combining three products-a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with…

The collection.

Browse 242 artifacts Indexed by category from the collection.
    CG

    CurtCo Freedom Group

    1 item →
    DI

    Disk

    4 items →
    EC

    Event Collateral

    2 items →
    AR

    ARDIS

    1 item →
    OR

    Oracle

    2 items →
    UN

    University

    1 item →
    PM

    Portable Design Magazine

    3 items →
    HA

    Handspring

    2 items →
    YI

    Young Ideas

    3 items →
    SS

    Sony Software

    2 items →
    MJ

    Microwave Journal

    1 item →
    GS

    GRiD Systems

    1 item →
    LE

    Letter

    5 items →
    WC

    Windows CE

    6 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 – December, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 12

    Volume 5 · Issue 12 Pen-Based Computing – December, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 12

    16 pp
    Pen-Based Computing – June, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 6

    Volume 5 · Issue 06 Pen-Based Computing – June, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 6

    16 pp
    Pen-Based Computing – April, 1996 – Volume 6, Number 4

    Volume 6 · Issue 04 Pen-Based Computing – April, 1996 – Volume 6, Number 4

    16 pp
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