GO Corporation Correspondence – PenPoint SDK 1.0a (May 29, 1992)

About the Organization

GO Corporation was founded in 1987 to create portable computers, an operating system, and software with a pen-based user interface. It was famous not only for its pioneering work in pen-based computing, but also for being one of the most well-funded start-up companies of its time.

Its founders were Jerry Kaplan, Robert Carr, and Kevin Doren. Mr. Kaplan subsequently chronicled the history of the company in his book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure.

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Editorial

A letter on GO Corporation stationery from Arjen Maarleveld, Manager Developer Relations, about the final user release disks for the PenPoint (for developers).

It’s interesting to note that GO requested developers not to share this release directly with NCR 3125 customers, but instead requested that developers forward customers to NCR.

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Media

GO Corporation – Introducing PenPoint (1991)

GO Corporation used this video to promote the developer release of the PenPoint OS in 1991. PenPoint was one of the first operating systems designed specifically to run on mobile devices. Featuring: Dr. Norm Vincent (State Farm), Terry Conner (EDS), Phillipe Kahn (Borland), Jack Blount (Novell), David Reed (Lotus), Alan Lefkof (Grid), Vern Raburn (Slate), Dan Bricklin (Slate), and Jim Cannavino (IBM).

PenPoint Demonstration 1991

GO Corporation’s 1991 promotional video about their pen-based operating system, aimed at software developers. Includes an extensive demo by Robert Carr, architect of the operating system, where he shows the notebook metaphor, their use of gestures, the embedded document architecture, and more.