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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
235
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 235 in the permanent collection.
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Creative Digital, Inc. 1994

PIE Developers – Volume 2.2 – March, 1994
Stylus Publishing 1991
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 1, Number 5 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – November, 1991 – Volume 1, Number 5
Creative Digital, Inc. 1994

PIE Developers – Volume 2.5 – September, 1994
Metrowerks, Inc. 1997
Metrowerks, Inc. - Metrowerks Ships CodeWarrior for PalmPilot Release 3 Press Release (Side 1)

Metrowerks, Inc. – Metrowerks Ships CodeWarrior for PalmPilot Release 3 Press Release
Creative Digital, Inc. 1994

PIE Developers – Volume 2.4 – July, 1994
Watcom International Corporation 1991

WATCOM C Library Reference for PenPoint
GO Corporation 1993

GO Corporation PenPointers August 1993 (Newsletter)
GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation Correspondence – PenPoint SDK 1.0a (May 29, 1992)
GeoWorks Corporation 1992
GeoWorks, Inc. - GEOS Software Development Kit Objects - Volume 1, Release 0.8 (Cover)

GeoWorks, Inc. – GEOS Software Development Kit Objects, Volume 1, Release 0.8 (Documentation)
Volksware, Inc. 1996
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 6, Number 3 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – March, 1996 – Volume 6, Number 3
Palmtop Publications 2000
Palmtop Journal – Issue 32 (Cover)

Palmtop – Issue 32
PennWell Corporation 1999
Portable Design Magazine – November 1999 (Cover)

Portable Design – November 1999
PenWorld, Incorporated 1994
Personal Electronics News - Issue 17 - May/June 1994 (Cover)

Personal Electronics News, Issue 17, May/June 1994
GO Corporation 1991

GO Corporation – The PenPoint Technical Papers
EO, Incorporated 1992

EO Incorporated – The World of Messaging: An Introduction to Personal Communication
Volksware, Inc. 1994
Pen-Based Computing: Volume 4, Number 7 (Cover)

Pen-Based Computing – August, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 7
aha! software corporation 1993
aha! InkWriter at a Glance Quick Reference Guide (Cover)

aha! InkWriter at a Glance Quick Reference Guide
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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1991Software
Microsoft Enables Visual Basic Custom Controls for Windows for Pen Computing
Microsoft announces the Microsoft Visual Basic Control Development Kit for extending Visual Basic by developing custom controls, including those for Microsoft Windows…
1994Software
CIC Announces YPad for Pen Computing; A Lightning-Fast Electronic Yellow Pad for Windows Users
YPad acts like a yellow legal pad, allowing people to use pen computing for the most common task of all, taking notes.
1996Event
Future of Handheld PCs Tied to Accessibility of Desktop Computer Data from the Field, Special PCCA Meeting Finds; Commencing Search for Solution
The special PCCA meeting, held in Las Vegas on opening day of COMDEX, drew some 75 people from about 50 of the…
1999Software
K2 Announces Drug-to-Drug Interactions Analyzer for Palm connected organizers
Apothecarium is the first product of its kind on the popular Palm Computing platform.
2000Software
CIC Begins Shipping InkTools for the Palm Computing Platform Enabling Verifiable Electronic Signatures to Be Integrated Into Custom Wireless Applications
InkTools is a development toolkit that was originally introduced for developers of Windows-based applications and is now being made available to the…
2002Software
Handmark Takes Two Awards for SCRABBLE Game on PDAs
Both Palm, Inc. and Handheld Computing magazine have selected the Handmark, Inc. version of the classic SCRABBLE crossword game from Hasbro, Inc.…
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 235 artifacts Indexed by category from the collection.
    FS

    First Pen Systems

    1 item →
    AC

    aha! software corporation

    32 items →
    JS

    John Wiley & Sons

    3 items →
    SS

    Sony Software

    2 items →
    RO

    Royal

    1 item →
    YI

    Young Ideas

    3 items →
    IA

    Integrated Application

    1 item →
    NE

    Newsletter

    11 items →
    CA

    Casio

    3 items →
    TC

    Thaddeus Computing

    2 items →
    EM

    Ex Machina

    2 items →
    ZO

    Zoomer

    2 items →
    DR

    Draft

    1 item →
    HW

    Hardware

    7 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 – May, 1991 – Volume 1, Number 2

    Volume 1 · Issue 02 Pen-Based Computing – May, 1991 – Volume 1, Number 2

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

    Volume 5 · Issue 05 Pen-Based Computing – May, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 5

    16 pp
    Pen-Based Computing – October, 1992 – Volume 2, Number 4

    Volume 2 · Issue 04 Pen-Based Computing – October, 1992 – Volume 2, Number 4

    16 pp
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