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It’s interesting. I knew of the Canon Cat and that it was called that for a number of years. Seeing that advertisement puts into context a little bit why it mi
by SllX 4y ago
It’s interesting. I knew of the Canon Cat and that it was called that for a number of years.
Seeing that advertisement puts into context a little bit why it might have been called a “Cat”. Note that there’s no mouse and they emphasize this part and the part Jef Raskin had in originating the Macintosh project at Apple.
- eludwig 4y agoThe "cat" that ate the mouse? If so, a clever reverse dig at Jobs? (it did seem like there was bad blood there)
- SllX 4y agoThat’s what I’m thinking, but with the mouse serving as a proxy for the Macintosh. Jobs took over the Macintosh Project after being removed from the Lisa Project and the vision became something else: the thing we’re familiar with. The Canon Cat is closer to what the Macintosh would have been if this hadn’t happened, and Jef Raskin wasn’t the biggest fan of the Mouse either.