EO, Inc. – Pen Expo Attendee Letter (August 26, 1993)

This one-page letter, dated August 26, 1993, was sent by EO, Inc. to attendees of the Pen Expo trade show as a follow-up to booth visits inquiring about the AT&T EO Personal Communicator.¹ It was signed by Pamela A. Miller, Vice President of Marketing at EO, Inc., and led with the headline "Now You Too Can Fax From the Beach With Your AT&T EO Personal Communicator!".¹ An accompanying brochure was enclosed.¹

The AT&T EO Personal Communicator had been unveiled in two models — the EO 440 and EO 880 — on November 4, 1992, both running GO Corporation's PenPoint operating system on AT&T's Hobbit RISC microprocessor.² By the time of the Pen Expo letter, AT&T had become EO's majority shareholder, announced on June 1, 1993³, and the AT&T EO Personal Communicator had been on sale in 52 selected AT&T Phone Centers since June 30, 1993.⁴ Distribution had been further expanded through Dell's DellWare catalog, Merisel, Fry's Electronics, and a network of cellular dealers and value-added resellers on July 23, 1993⁵, and thirteen days before the letter — on August 13, 1993 — AT&T had announced that EO and GO Corporation would merge into a single company under AT&T ownership.⁶

The letter relayed those developments — the AT&T majority stake, the GO/EO merger, and availability through both EO authorized resellers and AT&T's sales channels — to its Pen Expo recipients¹, and directed readers to call the toll-free number 1-800-458-0880 for product information or the location of a nearest EO authorized reseller or AT&T Phone Center.¹

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