This pen is matte silver and matte black with a black Apple logo and chrome accents. The manufacturer is LEED’S, and this pen is in its original padded box.
FileMaker Pen (dark blue, silver logo)
FileMaker is relational database software product from Claris International, a subsidiary of Apple. FileMaker was first released in 1985 as a Macintosh product. In 1990 the product name was changed to FileMaker Pro, and it was made available for Windows in 1992. An iOS version was released in 2010—followed by various web and cloud versions since then.
While the product was referred to as FileMaker Pro throughout much of its history, the company was named FileMaker Inc. from 1998–2019. This dark blue pen features a later version of the FileMaker logo in silver.
Source: Wikipedia (FileMaker Pro, Claris International)
FileMaker Pen (black, gold logo)
FileMaker is relational database software product from Claris International, a subsidiary of Apple. FileMaker was first released in 1985 as a Macintosh product. In 1990 the product name was changed to FileMaker Pro, and it was made available for Windows in 1992. An iOS version was released in 2010, followed by various web and cloud versions since then.
While the product was referred to as FileMaker Pro throughout much of its history, the company was named FileMaker Inc. from 1998–2019. This black pen with a gold FileMaker logo was distributed at technology conferences during the late 1990s and early 2000s. This is an early version of the FileMaker logo.
Source: Wikipedia (FileMaker Pro, Claris International)
Executive Briefing Center Pen (translucent red-orange with clip, white logo)
Apple maintains a few Executive Briefing Centers worldwide for the purpose of hosting current and potential customers to discuss and provide training on Apple products and services and/or host various groups and individuals who use Apple products and services. One Executive Briefing Center is located in Cupertino, California, at Apple’s main campus (formerly Infinite Loop, now at the main “spaceship” campus), and another is located in Chicago’s Loop, overlooking the Apple Store at Michigan Avenue on the riverfront.
Apple sometimes provides Briefing Center attendees with pens and/or notebooks, depending upon the nature of the meeting.
This Executive Briefing Center Pen is translucent red-orange with a silver clip and a white Apple logo. Its logotype reads Executive Briefing Center in Apple Garamond (used as the Apple corporate font from 1984–2003).
Claris Pen (gray spring, Claris logo)
Claris describes itself as “a subsidiary of Apple Inc.” The company began in 1987 as a company that Apple “spun off” to make software for the Apple II and eventually the Macintosh. In 1988 Claris purchased a popular database program FileMaker Inc. In 1998 Claris changed its name to FileMaker Inc. and returned its popular ClarisWorks product to Apple (changing the product’s name to AppleWorks). In 2019, FileMaker Inc. went back to the Claris name by rebranding as Claris International.
This Claris pen is a dark gray metal spring with a white clip on which a blue Claris logo is printed. This style Claris logo was used throughout the 1990s.
Sources: Claris International, Wikipedia
PowerSchool Pen (translucent gray, white logo)
The student information system PowerSchool was owned by Apple from 2001–2006. PowerSchool began as an independent company in 1997, was purchased by Apple in 2001, was purchased by Pearson in 2006, and again became an independent company in 2015 when it was purchased by a private equity group.
This Apple PowerSchool pen is translucent gray with a white Apple logo and the logotype Apple PowerSchool in the Myriad Apple font used at the time. I was a PowerSchool user from 2000–2014 while I was a Technology Director in four different school districts.
