The Canon Cat: The Writing Recordsdata Equipment

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The Canon Cat is a discover processing appliance which was as soon as bought by Canon in 1987. It was as soon as designed by Recordsdata Equipment, Inc.

The Cat has a remarkably assorted user interface. It was as soon as an true facts appliance which lets you staunch kind. It packs a blinding amount of energy in a petite set of tools and instructions.

This space collects some facts on the Canon Cat. We hope to present folk a sense of how the Cat works. Every user interface fanatic must know about the Cat and have a feel of the differently enormous world of the Cat.

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6.8.2004
The Canon Cat: The Writing Recordsdata Equipment

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Canon Cat links
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Changing the Cat to speed on 240V mains voltage
Canon Cat Internals

3.1.2002
Online Attend Screens from the Cat
Canon Cat Particular person Interface

3.1.2002
The Forth contained within the Canon Cat
Canon Cat Internals

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Canon Cat Internals

Changing the Cat to speed on 240V mains voltage
(7.6.2004)
Instructions on how one can remodel a Cat to speed on 240VAC mains voltage.

The Forth contained within the Canon Cat
(3.1.2002)
Canon Cat is programmed with the Forth language. Look what it’s likely you’ll perchance well invent.

How to permit the FORTH interpreter
(3.1.2002)
The definitive instructions of going Forth on a Cat, examined on a dwelling Cat.

Easter Eggs within the Canon Cat
(24.6.2001)
Look the funky authors page…

Canon Cat Sources

Canon Cat links
(6.8.2004)
There is some facts available about the Canon cat on the gain.

Canon Cat Particular person Interface

Online Attend Screens from the Cat
(3.1.2002)
The on-computer screen assist pages of the Canon Cat

Camouflage Shots
(24.6.2001)
What does the computer screen ogle esteem and how does it work?

Why the Cat is so Mountainous?

By haa@canoncat.org

I have been attracted to user interfaces for a with out a doubt lengthy time. Assorted forms of user interaction must be extra actively experimented with, except we decide to dwell on desktop-window-icon-click on reformatory forever.

The Canon Cat initially built by the enormous minds (e.g. Jef Raskin et al) at Recordsdata Equipment, Inc is one enormous example of doing assorted things.

It’s with out a doubt astonishing that the Cat (which bought about 20.000 in the end of 6 months in 1987) turned a staunch product. More in most cases than no longer, fresh assorted recommendations die sooner than they get the possibility to be examined in staunch lifestyles.

Jef Raskin, who was as soon as within the back of the Canon Cat, also created Apple’s Macintosh computer, at a time when 80 column displays were the high-cease of computing. Agree with it.

I read about the Canon Cat in several user interface articles and books (in conjunction with Jef Raskin’s The Humane Interface). The descriptions with out a doubt intrigued me so I bought a ‘Cat from Ebay. It with out a doubt works in a assorted procedure. The hardware feels rather 1980’s, but the ideology is level-headed from the lengthy speed.

Now that we’re keen in direction of a brand fresh extra or much less computing platform, PDAs and diverse petite-sized cell gadgets, we have a giant gamble of doing things differently. Let’s recede and invent it!

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Here’s a transient picture of the Canon Cat. Sight the two leap keys beneath the residence bar.

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