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The complete catalog of pen-based computing artifacts — hardware, software, magazines, advertisements, and primary documents drawn from the museum's collection.

Artifacts
232
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Timeline
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    232 Items

    PennWell Corporation 1998
    Portable Design Magazine – January 1998 (Cover)

    Portable Design – January 1998

    Stylus Publishing 1991
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 1, Number 2 (Cover)

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

    Volksware, Inc. 1994
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 4, Number 10 (Cover)

    Pen-Based Computing – December, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 10

    IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. 1999

    Palm Computing for Dummies (Book)

    GO Corporation 1992

    GO Corporation PenPointers January 1992 (Newsletter)

    Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1992
    GO Corporation - PenPoint Architectural Reference - Volume I (Cover)

    GO Corporation – PenPoint Architectural Reference – Volume I

    Creative Digital, Inc. 1995

    Creative Digital Systems – PDA Developers East ’95 (Press Release)

    Palm Computing, Inc. 1994

    Palm Graffiti (for Newton) Package

    Stylus Publishing 1991
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 1, Number 5 (Cover)

    Pen-Based Computing – November, 1991 – Volume 1, Number 5

    GO Corporation 1993

    GO Corporation PenPointers June 1993 (Newsletter)

    Avail Technology, Inc. 1994
    Avail Technology – Free TapWorks Software Coupon (Front)

    Avail Technology Free TapWorks Software (Coupon)

    WPDO 1993

    Worldwide PenPoint Developers Organization (WPDO) Flyer – 1993

    Palmtop Publications 2001
    Palmtop Journal – Issue 34 (Cover)

    Palmtop – Issue 34

    GO Corporation 1992

    GO Corporation PenPointers October 1992 (Newsletter)

    Stylus Publishing 1992
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 2, Number 2 (Cover)

    Pen-Based Computing – May, 1992 – Volume 2, Number 2

    Hewlett-Packard 2000

    HP Jornada 720 Handheld PC User’s Guide

    GO Corporation 1992

    GO Corporation 1993 Catalog of Product and Services Participation Request Form

    GO Corporation 1992
    GO Corporation - GO Fax Brochure (Front Cover)

    GO Corporation – GO Fax Brochure

    EO, Incorporated 1993
    EO Inc - Personal Communicator 440 Order Form Letter (March, 1993)

    EO, Inc. – Personal Communicator 440 Letter and Order Form

    Creative Digital, Inc. 1994

    PDA Developers – Volume 2.6 – Nov/Dec 1994

    GO Corporation 1992

    GO Corporation PenPointers December 1992 (Newsletter)

    GO Corporation 1992
    GO Corporation - Using PenPoint (Cover)

    GO Corporation – Using PenPoint

    Stylus Publishing 1992
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 2, Number 3 (Cover)

    Pen-Based Computing – August, 1992 – Volume 2, Number 3

    Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1991
    The Power of PenPoint (Cover)

    The Power of PenPoint (Book)

    Portable Design Magazine – January 1998 (Cover)

    Portable Design – January 1998

    This is an original edition of Portable Design magazine. The publication focused on hardware design for portable and handheld systems.

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    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 1, Number 2 (Cover)

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

    This is an original edition of Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems, the premier industry newsletter for consumer and industrial stylus-based computing systems. Issues of the newsletter are in…

    May 1991 View Details →
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 4, Number 10 (Cover)

    Pen-Based Computing – December, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 10

    This is an original edition of Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems, the premier industry newsletter for consumer and industrial stylus-based computing systems. Issues of the newsletter are in…

    November 1994 View Details →

    Palm Computing for Dummies (Book)

    A comprehensive guide to using Palm handheld devices.

    July 1999 View Details →

    GO Corporation PenPointers January 1992 (Newsletter)

    PenPointers was the official software developers newsletter published by GO Corporation. Issues contained corporate updates, descriptions of new operating system features, hardware compatibility notes, and tips and techniques, among other…

    January 1992 View Details →
    GO Corporation - PenPoint Architectural Reference - Volume I (Cover)

    GO Corporation – PenPoint Architectural Reference – Volume I

    GO Corporation PenPoint Architectural Reference, Volume I, which provides a comprehensive description of the PenPoint Application Programming Interface (API). This volume describes the functions and messages used to manipulate classes,…

    April 1992 View Details →

    Creative Digital Systems – PDA Developers East ’95 (Press Release)

    This is the original press release issued by Creative Digital Systems for the PDA Developers East ’95 conference, held in Framingham, Massachusetts on August 6-7, 1995. The well-attended event was…

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    Palm Graffiti (for Newton) Package

    Graffiti was a single-stroke shorthand handwriting recognition system developed by Jeff Hawkins (Palm Computing). By using a simpler alphabet, computers could easily recognize handwriting. Hawkins believed that people would take…

    July 1994 View Details →
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 1, Number 5 (Cover)

    Pen-Based Computing – November, 1991 – Volume 1, Number 5

    This is an original edition of Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems, the premier industry newsletter for consumer and industrial stylus-based computing systems. Issues of the newsletter are in…

    November 1991 View Details →

    GO Corporation PenPointers June 1993 (Newsletter)

    PenPointers was the official software developers newsletter published by GO Corporation. Issues contained corporate updates, descriptions of new operating system features, hardware compatibility notes, and tips and techniques, among other…

    June 1993 View Details →
    Avail Technology – Free TapWorks Software Coupon (Front)

    Avail Technology Free TapWorks Software (Coupon)

    This is a coupon offering a free copy of TapWorks to all people who purchased an Apple Newton MessagePad between July 1, 1994 and September 30, 1994. TapWorks was the…

    July 1994 View Details →

    Worldwide PenPoint Developers Organization (WPDO) Flyer – 1993

    This flyer was handed out at various Silicon Valley events, often by WPDO co-founder David Schachter.

    July 1993 View Details →
    Palmtop Journal – Issue 34 (Cover)

    Palmtop – Issue 34

    Palmtop: The journal for today’s Psion user was the premier glossy magazine for Psion users. Published and edited by Steve Clack, the magazine was distinctive in its diminutive size and…

    June 2026 View Details →

    GO Corporation PenPointers October 1992 (Newsletter)

    PenPointers was the official software developers newsletter published by GO Corporation. Issues contained corporate updates, descriptions of new operating system features, hardware compatibility notes, and tips and techniques, among other…

    October 1992 View Details →
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 2, Number 2 (Cover)

    Pen-Based Computing – May, 1992 – Volume 2, Number 2

    This is an original edition of Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems, the premier industry newsletter for consumer and industrial stylus-based computing systems. Issues of the newsletter are in…

    May 1992 View Details →

    HP Jornada 720 Handheld PC User’s Guide

    A detailed and richly-illustrated user’s manual for the popular HP Jornada 720. Hewlett-Packard had an excellent reputation for delivering finely-crafted and superbly-engineered products, and the company’s comprehensive documentation was part…

    July 2000 View Details →

    GO Corporation 1993 Catalog of Product and Services Participation Request Form

    This is a participation request form soliciting input from developers and publishers for the Go Corporation 1993 Catalog of Products and Services.

    July 1992 View Details →
    GO Corporation - GO Fax Brochure (Front Cover)

    GO Corporation – GO Fax Brochure

    This is the original brochure for the GO Fax application (included with the PenPoint operating system). This brochure was packaged as part of the GO Corp. Media Kit. Note how…

    July 1992 View Details →
    EO Inc - Personal Communicator 440 Order Form Letter (March, 1993)

    EO, Inc. – Personal Communicator 440 Letter and Order Form

    Original letter and order form from EO, Inc. extending members of the press and industry analysts an early-purchase offer on the EO Personal Communicator 440.

    March 1993 View Details →

    PDA Developers – Volume 2.6 – Nov/Dec 1994

    PDA Developers, originally PIE Developers, was the premier, independent printed resource for mobile developers in the mid-to-late 1990s. Billing itself as “A Technical Journal for PDA Developers,” each issue contained detailed…

    November 1994 View Details →

    GO Corporation PenPointers December 1992 (Newsletter)

    PenPointers was the official software developers newsletter published by GO Corporation. Issues contained corporate updates, descriptions of new operating system features, hardware compatibility notes, and tips and techniques, among other…

    December 1992 View Details →
    GO Corporation - Using PenPoint (Cover)

    GO Corporation – Using PenPoint

    GO Corporations Using PenPoint offers an introduction to using the innovative PenPoint operating system.

    July 1992 View Details →
    Pen-Based Computing: Volume 2, Number 3 (Cover)

    Pen-Based Computing – August, 1992 – Volume 2, Number 3

    This is an original edition of Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems, the premier industry newsletter for consumer and industrial stylus-based computing systems. Issues of the newsletter are in…

    August 1992 View Details →
    The Power of PenPoint (Cover)

    The Power of PenPoint (Book)

    The Power of PenPoint was a book on GO Corporation’s PenPoint operating system, written by Robert Carr and Dan Shafer and published by Addison-Wesley. Carr was the architect of PenPoint…

    February 1991 View Details →