GO Corporation – Regis McKenna Clipping Alert (March 22, 1993)

The GO Corporation - Regis McKenna Clipping Alert (March 22, 1993) is an internal press-clippings packet that Regis McKenna Inc. compiled for GO Corporation covering the week of March 22, 1993.¹ Its clippings are gathered under a "GO Corporation Clips" heading and document how the trade and technology press were covering pen-based computing in early 1993.²

The packet leads with "Have Pen, Will Travel: A Mobile Tool for Computing Power," an article from the January 1993 issue of Dallas/Ft. Worth Technology, which reported that roughly 200 of the Fortune 500 companies were already using pen-based computing for industry-specific tasks.³ The same article characterized the pen-computing market as still being driven by OEM vendors rather than by software vendors.⁴

The collection reproduces the February 21, 1993 issue of the technology newsletter Release 1.0, which surveyed the emerging market for personal communicators and pen software.⁵ That issue examined AT&T's EO, whose personal communicators ran the PenPoint operating system, and Palm Computing — founded by Jeff Hawkins, who had designed the GRiD Convertible — together with Palm's planned Zoomer, which Casio and Tandy were expected to ship the following fall at not much over $600.⁶ The same issue profiled Slate Corporation, calling it the first notable software developer for PenPoint and noting that it broadened to PenWindows after Microsoft entered the market, while its chairman, Vern Raburn, had previously worked at Microsoft, Lotus, and Symantec.⁷

The packet closes with a "Pen Computer Feature Comparison" from the March 22, 1993 issue of Computer Reseller News, a specification table placing the Dauphin DTR-1, the GRiD Convertible 2500, and other contemporary pen machines side by side.⁸

AI generated using primary sources referenced in the footnotes