AST Certifies PenRight! for GRIDPAD 2390
FREMONT, Calif. — March 22, 1994 — PenRight! Corp. Tuesday announced AST's certification of the PenRight! operating environment for the GRIDPAD 2390.
The GRIDPAD 2390 now supports the 1000 plus applications developed in the PenRight! environment for such industries as health care, consumer goods, public safety, transportation, pharmaceutical and utility companies.
"By licensing the PenRight! environment, AST has the ability to automate specific industries. PenRight!'s vertically designed applications combined with the personal information manager (PIM) from Palm Computing, Intuit's Pocket Quicken, and America Online bring a new dimension to the PDA paradigm," said Mike Hulthen, president of PenRight!. "PenRight!'s community of 750 independent software developers can immediately design new applications or port existing applications to the GRIDPAD 2390."
PenRight!'s environment can be easily accessed by toggling between GeoWorks, and the PenRight! environment loaded on a SunDisk Type II Flash mass storage card.
To create applications for the GRIDPAD 2390 developers must use the PenRight! Pro software development kit, in conjunction with AST's GRIDPAD 2390 development upgrade kit. AST's SDK includes a PenRight! development manual, device drivers on diskette, and a software license agreement. AST's GRIDPAD 2390 development upgrade kit can be purchased for $29.95 by calling 800/727-1278.
PenRight! Pro, the widely used "C" based software development kit, regularly priced at $795, and the GRIDPAD 2390 SDK will be bundled and sold by PenRight! Corp. at a special promotion price of $595.95. The promotion price will run through May 15th. The bundle can be purchased by calling 510/249-6900.
Additional software development kits are available in the PenRight! environment including Power Pen Pal and PadBase+. Power Pen Pal, from Pen Pal associates is a robust environment for building custom pen applications by both the professional developer and those who have a basic understanding of programming concepts. PadBase+ by R2Z Inc. provides a complete set of tools for pen software development for the Clipper programmer.
PenRight! Corp. located in Fremont designs and markets the PenRight! operating environment and PenRight! Pro software development kit. PenRight! is a DOS-based graphical user interface and handwriting recognition environment, which supports 12 international languages. PenRight! Pro is a "C" based software development kit for creating industry leading mobile applications. PenRight! has been licensed to run on pen computers from AST/GRiD, Dauphin, Fujitsu, IBM, Microslate, NEC, Samsung, Telxon, Toshiba, and Tusk.
Note to Editors: PenRight! and PenRight! Pro are registered trademarks of PenRight! Corp. All other product names, logos, trademarks, or registered trademarks are property of their respected owners.
CONTACT:
PenRight! Corp., Fremont
Chris Temple, 510/249-6911 or
Mike Hulthen, 800/736-3616