GO Corporation: The Venture Bet on Pen Computing That Arrived Too Early
GO Corporation raised and consumed more than $75 million trying to create pen computing before the supporting hardware, software, and mobile market were ready.
GO Corporation raised and consumed more than $75 million trying to create pen computing before the supporting hardware, software, and mobile market were ready.
GO Corporation's PenPoint was one of the first general-purpose operating systems designed around a pen from the start, replacing desktop assumptions with notebooks, gestures, embedded documents, and an object-oriented application model.
The RAND Tablet paired a high-resolution stylus surface with GRAIL's handwriting and gesture recognition, creating a striking 1960s demonstration of direct graphical interaction.