Young Ideas Software Design Services (Pamphlet)
With the introduction of GO Corp.’s PenPoint operating system and Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing, a number of consulting and services emerged to help clients create pen-optimized applications.
Young Ideas, headed by Catherine Young, specialized in PenPoint and Slate PenApps solutions, offering app development, form design, training, and documentation.
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Young Ideas Software Design Services
United States of America
English
1993
Two-color folded pamphlet.
4.5" x 11"
8d89d60430c4
1993
Direct from publisher
2019-01-28
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Young Ideas Software Design Services was a Sausalito, California consultancy that developed pen-computer applications, operating from offices at 207 Second Street in Sausalito.1 Its services brochure presented the firm's work under the heading of pen-based computing, offering application development, form design, training, consulting, and documentation.1
Young Ideas described its approach as applying new interface-design techniques to existing paper forms, reworking them into applications built around the pen computer.1 The firm's experience spanned environments from X Windows OpenLook and Motif to GO Corporation's PenPoint, and included a year of work in Slate's PenApps.1 Its brochure listed IBM, GO, and Slate among its customers.1
The consultancy's principal, Catherine Young, authored The Rogue PenApps Workbook, a self-training guide for PenApps for PenPoint built around PenAppsDBMS and xBase.2 Published by Young Ideas Software Design Services in 1993, the workbook sold for thirty dollars and shipped with a 3.5-inch floppy disk containing its database and TIFF images.2
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Footnotes
- Young Ideas Software Design Services, Young Ideas Software Design Services (Pamphlet) (image scan), 1993
- Young Ideas Software Design Services, Young Ideas The Rogue PenApps Workbook (Document) (image scan), 1993
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