From: brian@grot.starconn.com (Brian Smithson)
Subject: Re: Pentop Field Widening
Organization: Grot Shops, Ltd.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:17:47 GMT

Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz) writes:

>Members of the editorial press who were pre-registered for the upcoming
>Winter Consumer Electronics Show received the following invitation in
>the mail last week:
>             ----------------------------------

>Casio Computers Co., Ltd. and Tandy Corporation
>                Invite You To
>                      a
>             Technology Briefing
>                    Of Our
>                 Revolutionary
>              Handheld, Pen-Based
>           Personal Information Processor

>            Thursday, January 7, 1993
>           Las Vegas Convention Center
>                  Room D107
>                12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM
>             -----------------------------------

>It should be rather interesting to see if this is a "mee-too" of the 
>Sharp 9600, or something entirely different.

Maybe it has something to do with this?  If so, then it should be quite
interesting.

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GeoWorks Joins Tandy and Casio to Develop New Family of Personal Information
Processors; GEOS(R) to Become Soul of a New Machine

LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 2, 1992 -- GeoWorks today formally announced that it
will join Tandy Corporation,  of Fort Worth, Texas,  and Casio Computer Co.,
Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, in the development of a new generation of personal,
portable information devices dubbed "Personal Information Processors."  GeoWorks
will supply GEOS(R) (Graphic Environment Operating System), its award winning,
graphical, object oriented operating environment to this new family of devices.
The announcement was made on the first day of Lap &  Palmtop '92.

"We are very excited about joining Tandy and Casio, two giants in the computer
and consumer electronics industry," said Brian Dougherty, CEO of GeoWorks.
"Tandy is the leading consumer and computer electronics manufacturer and
retailer in the U.S.;  Casio is the world's leading supplier of electronic
(digital) organizers and calculators.  We couldn't have asked for a better
endorsement of the capability and flexibility of GEOS."

"Our goal is to create a family of products that integrate various digital
technologies into exciting and cost effective consumer products," said Howard
Elias, Vice President of Tandy Computers.  " We envision a range of devices
based on an open operating environment, easy to use software applications, and
innovative input methods like pen.  We specifically chose GEOS for the first of
a new generation of small, low poer and low-cost devices because of its
efficient design, small code size and real time power management."

GEOS is a state of the art graphical operating environment.  Its object oriented
design incorporates preemptive multithreaded multitasking, a PostScript(R)-like
single imaging model for true "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) display
and printing, and high performance virtual memory management.  Additionally,
GEOS supports both scalable and flexible user interface technologies which allow
an application to have selectable levels of complexity (beginner to advanced) as
well as multiple types of input devices (keyboard, mouse, touch screen, pen,
etc.).  GeoWorks recently announced support for pen-based applications in
February at the Technologic Partners Pen Computing '92 Conference.

Minimum system requirements for GEOS are an 8088 (PC XT class) processor, 512 K
of memory, and 1MB of fixed storage.

"We designed GEOS with these hand held devices in mind, " said Dougherty.  "We
believe the opportunity for this 'fourth wave' of computing dwarfs the current
market for desktop PC's.  However, in order for the this market to ignite,
compelling low-cost devices and applications must be in place.  GEOS makes these
exciting developments possible."

Among  those developing GEOS-based applications  is Palm Computing.  Founded by
Jeff Hawkins, formerly V.P. of Research at GRiD Systems, Palm is commited to the
hand held and consumer palmtop market.  Palm will provide applications software
and its PalmPrint handwriting recognition software for the Tandy/Casio Personal
Information Processors.

GeoWorks has over 500,000 customers of its GEOS-based GeoWorks Ensemble and
GeoWorks Pro application suite, making GEOS the fastest ramping new graphical
operating environment in the history of the PC industry.  GeoWorks Pro is
available in seven languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian,
and Spanish.

GeoWorks, located in Berkeley California, is the developer and publisher of the
acclaimed GEOS graphical oprating system and GeoWorks Pro applications software.
The company provides sophisticated and highly efficient systems and applications
software solutions for business, home and school computer users.  GeoWorks
products are available worldwide through OEM and dealer channels.

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Contact: Lee Llevano, Vice President Marketing
    GeoWorks
    (510) 486-8655

GEOS and GeoWorks are registered trademarks of GeoWorks
PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated

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-- 
-Brian Smithson
 brian@grot.starconn.com