GO Corporation Certified Developer Letter

This is the original letter sent to certified PenPoint developers.

Note the suggestion from Thom Hogan on how to get started by donning the Certified Developer’s T-shirt!

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Artifact Details

Organization

GO Corporation

Author

Thom Hogan

Place Manufactured

United States

Language

English

Date

1992-09-28

Description

Two single-sided sheets of paper, one printed on letterhead, the other photocopied.

Size

8.5" x 11" (2 pages)

Condition

Like New

Catalog Number

Certified Developer Letter 1992-09-28

Lot Number

DOC-PP-0000

Acquired

1992

Acquisition Source

Acquired from Publisher

Catalogued

2018-07-11

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.

(Source: Wikipedia)

People Associated with this Artifact

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Editorial

This is the original letter sent to certified PenPoint developers.

Note the suggestion from Thom Hogan on how to get started by donning the Certified Developer’s T-shirt!

Oral History

No oral history available.

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.