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 – November, 1995 – Volume 5, Number 11
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Pen-Based Computing – June, 1994 – Volume 4, Number 5
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Pen-Based Computing – October/November, 1993 – Volume 3, Number 5
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Pen-Based Computing – April, 1996 – Volume 6, Number 4
The agreement encompasses CIC’s handwriting recognition, notepad, and signature security products for DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows CE platforms.
Timeline
Annasoft Systems to Distribute CIC’s Pen Computing Products to the Embedded Systems Market
May 13, 1997
EO Inc. announces a partnership with AT&T Matsushita, and Marubeni to design, build and market the first generation of a new class of products called personal communicators.
Timeline
EO Inc. Announces Partnership with AT&T, Matsushita and Marubeni to Build First Personal Communicators
October 1, 1992
Timeline
PenSoft Founded by Michael Baum with Venture Funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures
March 1, 1990
Wolfson Microelectronics plc receives endorsement for its high-performance audio CODECs from two leading players in the consumer electronics field. Both Toshiba and Dell have incorporated the WM9705 audio CODEC in their latest high end PDAs.
Timeline
Wolfson Becomes Mixed-Signal Supplier of Choice for PDA Vendors
January 20, 2003
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