PBCHM / Organizations
ORFrom the collection

Every organization.

The companies that built pen-based computing — the hardware makers, software houses, magazine publishers, and startups whose products and ideas live on in the museum's collection.

Organizations
53
Products
7
Artifacts
142
Span
1976 — 2025

53 Items

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EO, Incorporated

EO Inc. was founded in 1991 to produce and market personal communicators. The company has received funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, AT&T, Matsushita and Marubeni. EO employs approximately…

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First Pen Systems, Inc.

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Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.

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Fujitsu Personal Systems, Inc.

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Gaia Software

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General Magic, Inc.

GO Corporation (Logo with Wordmark)
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GO Corporation

GO Corporation was a Foster City, California startup that pioneered pen-based personal computing from 1987 to 1994. Backed by roughly $75 million from Kleiner Perkins, IBM, and others, and led…

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GRiD Systems Corp.

Grid Systems Corporation (stylized as GRiD) was an early portable computer manufacturer, based in the United States and oriented for the production of rugged and semi-rugged machines. Currently, the Grid…

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided…

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Horizon House Publications, Inc.