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
GO Corporation – PenPoint Press Package (1992)
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Pen-Based Computing – April, 1996 – Volume 6, Number 4
NovoTech Objective-C compiler provides PenPoint programmers with an industry standard, ANCI-C based, object-oriented programming language for application development. —as described in a GO Corporation press document
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NovoTech – NovoTech Objective-C (PenPoint)
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Pen-Based Computing – July, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 7
Leading Press and Analysts will select the top mobile products at the Sixth Annual Mobile Insights Conference, March 5-7, 2000, in Palm Desert.
Timeline
Sixth Annual Mobility Awards Nominations Announced
January 21, 2000
Fujitsu Personal Systems Inc. announces that it has integrated a high-speed wireless local area network (LAN) into its popular, super portable Stylistic 500 tablet computer.
Timeline
Fujitsu Introduces Stylistic RF with Fully Integrated Wireless Local Area Network
February 27, 1995
Puma Technology, Inc., the leading provider of advanced synchronization solutions for the handheld device marketplace, is recognized by The Business Journal as the ninth fastest growing public company out of the top 100 companies in the Silicon Valley.
Timeline
Puma Technology Recognized by the Business Journal as One of the Top Ten Fastest Growing Public Companies in the Silicon Valley
May 15, 1998
PenX VC enables users of CIC’s new Sign-it Secure signature verification solution to electronically sign legally binding documents using Adobe Acrobat 4.0 over Citrix’s Independent Computing Architecture (ICA).
Timeline
CIC Demonstrates Two New Enterprise Product Offerings Today at the GoMobile Industry Conference
September 23, 1999
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