Pen-Based Computing Alumni
Reconnect with the people who built pen computing.
A place for the engineers, designers, founders, and writers of the stylus era to find old colleagues — and to put the definitive oral history of that time on the record.
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From the museum
Artifact
Metrowerks, Inc. – Metrowerks to Support Windows CE 2.0 (Press Release)
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Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure Story
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GO Corporation – PenPoint Development Tools
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WPDO Meeting Improvement Questionnaire (February 11, 1993)
The new service gives users of the GRiD Convertible pen-based notebook computer instant access to the world of two-way RadioMail.
Timeline
Radiomail Introduces First Wireless E-mail for Pen-Based Commputers
November 16, 1992
Volunteer members of the EAA have developed a custom software application for the Palm Computing platform that enables show judges to rate aircraft while out in the field and then return to a central scoring station to download that data into a custom-designed database.
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AirVenture Oshkosh Uses 3Com PalmPilot Organizers to Bring Airplane Judging Into the 21st Century
July 30, 1998
Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc. and GO Corp. jointly announce a partnership designed to help value added resellers (VARs) and system integrators to quickly and efficiently address the mobile computing requirements of vertical markets.
Timeline
Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc. and GO Corp. Announce Marketing Partnership
June 21, 1993
The C-based PenRight! Pro is a toolkit for building applications based on GRiD’s PenRight!, a highly customizable MS-DOS-based graphical application platform that includes a compact handwriting recognition engine.
Timeline
GRiD to Distribute PenRight! Pro Software Development Toolkit Through The Programmer’s Shop
June 15, 1992
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