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
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Pen-Based Computing – April, 1997 – Volume 7, Number 4
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Pen-Based Computing – January, 1997 – Volume 7, Number 1
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GeoWorks, Inc. – GEOS Software Development Kit Objects, Volume 2, Release 0.8 (Documentation)
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Pen-Based Computing – October, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 10
Epcot ’94 launches a new era to expand Walt Disney’s vision of Epcot as a showcase for the best ideas of industry and technology by adding INNOVENTIONS, an exposition of amazing products for the near future, including the Apple Newton and EO Personal Communicator.
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Innoventions Brings Products of Near Future to Epcot ’94
July 1, 1994
PenDOS 2.0 supports more than one hundred existing mouse-aware DOS applications without modification, and provides support for development of new pen applications.
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IBM Announces PenDOS 2.0 for Pen Computer Manufacturers
January 27, 1993
This raises to six the number of microprocessor families supported by the Windows CE platform and increases the availability of high-performance semiconductors upon which OEMs can build new Windows CE-based embedded systems, mobile computing and multimedia product lines.
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Microsoft Announces AMD’s ElanSC400 Microcontroller to Support Windows CE
March 4, 1997
The single-chip VRC4171 device adds both color LCD graphics and PCMCIA Card control capability to the VR4100 family of processors, creating an ideal combination for Windows CE-based and other handheld products.
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NEC Electronics Launches VR Series Single-Controller Chip for Portables, HPCs
September 2, 1997
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