IBM ANNOUNCES 'PEN FOR OS/2', ADDS PEN CAPABILITIES TO VIRTUALLY ANY OS/2,
WINDOWS OR DOS APPLICATION

NEW YORK, June 29, 1993 . . . IBM's Personal Software Products (PSP)
division today announced Pen for OS/2. Pen for OS/2 is a powerful pen
computing system that adds pen capabilities, with handwriting recognition,
to virtually any OS/2, DOS or DOS/Windows application.

Pen for OS/2 is designed for mobile computing environments, where a
keyboard can be impractical, and for collaborative computing on the
desktop. It combines the strengths of OS/2 with full-featured pen
capabilities, including: integrated user-trainable handwriting
recognition; a window which adds handwriting recognition to most
non-pen-aware applications; standard and user-customizable gestures, and a
pop-up keyboard. Included as part of Pen for OS/2 are two applications --
Telepen, a collaborative computing system, and Sketchpad, a freehand
drawing tool.

Pen for OS/2 is now available to OEMs and ISVs, and also direct from IBM to
end-users. A number of leading pen-based hardware manufacturers today
endorsed Pen for OS/2, including: Dauphin Technology, Inc., AST Research,
TelePad Corp., Tusk, Inc. and FTG Data Systems. Pen for OS/2 also supports
desktop workpads and opaque tablets from Wacom, Kurta, Calcomp, Appoint
and Acecad.

Beta users of Pen for OS/2 include the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and The
State of Louisiana House of Representatives.

"With Pen for OS/2, we've expanded the boundaries of where and how
computers can be used," said Wally Casey, Director of Marketing for IBM' s
Personal Software Products division. "For today' s laptop-carrying
business executives, pen means being able to use a computer more
comfortably in a meeting, while standing, while making presentations or in
other environments where a keyboard is unwieldy."

Pen is excellent for a host of vertical applications. With pen-based
computers, for example, manufacturers can take inventory from the factory
floor and hospitals can record patient information direct to their
computer from the doctor' s waiting room. Pen is also a much more natural
and convenient input tool for desktop-based applications where people want
to use a pen to ' think on paper,' or jointly review and revise documents,
spreadsheets or presentations.

Pen for OS/2 offers one of the fastest and most accurate handwriting
recognition engines available today. Pen for OS/2' s handwriting
recognition program also allows users to improve accuracy by tailoring the
system to their unique handwriting characteristics. A large selection of
standard handwriting gestures can be used to control applications.
Gestures also can be user-defined to execute menu commands or macros in
both pen-based and traditional applications.

With Pen for OS/2, developers can easily create powerful pen-based OS/2
applications for both mobile and desktop computing. Pen for OS/2
capabilities can be accessed from virtually any OS/2 programming
language.

Pen for OS/2 enables users to operate virtually any OS/2, Windows or DOS
application running in an OS/2 window, using the pen as a mouse. From most
traditional applications, a Pen for OS/2 handwriting recognition window
can quickly be called up which will accept handwriting and pass it back to
the application as traditional text. A pop-up on-screen keyboard also
allows users to enter traditional text, numbers and commands using the
pen.

Two applications ship with Pen for OS/2. The first is Telepen, a
collaborative "chalkboard" application which allows networked users to
share a common space in which they can view, draw and annotate. Screen
captures can be easily imported into Telepen. The other application is
Sketchpad, a tool for creating freehand drawings that can be inserted into
applications through the system clipboard.

Pen for OS/2 is available now to end-users at a single-unit price of $89.
Volume pricing is available for OEMs. Pen for OS/2 requires the following:
a computer running OS/2 version 2.1; a pen sensor (digitizer) integrated
with a display or a digitizing tablet; 2MB of RAM over the requirements
for OS/2 2.1; and 5MB of hard disk space.

A Pen for OS/2 developers tool kit is available to assist ISVs and
corporate MIS to develop their own Pen for OS/2 applications. In addition,
IBM has scheduled a series of one-week workshops to help developers create
pen-based applications or add pen capabilities to existing applications.
For more information on these offerings call IBM at the following numbers:
end-user sales, (800) 3IBMOS2; OEM sales, (800) 426-4579; and developers'
assistance (404) 238-2200.

International Business Machines Corp
IBM United States
1133 Westchester Ave, White Plains, NY 10604

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