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Jef Raskin's initial idea, I believe, was more of a text system that would have been possible with the 6809. The Canon Cat was a further development of this id

Jef Raskin's initial idea, I believe, was more of a text system that would have been possible with the 6809. The Canon Cat was a further development of this idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat I can't find any demo or screen shots of the Canon Cat system in use, but I imagine it to be somewhat along the lines of the HASCI concept, which had been brewing around the same time. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-11/page/n404/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-11/page/n404/... HASCI actually shipped on the USA version of the Epson QX-10 as "Valdocs", an integrated document management system.

kalleboo 2y ago
> I can't find any demo or screen shots of the Canon Cat system in use There's an advertising video on YouTube showing it in use for text editing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c
- watersb 2y ago
  Wow, of course.. didn't think of video. That video is great, a VCR tape collection of corporate demos by Jef Raskin's company, apparently for investors and resellers. YouTube suggested a short, informal demo posted only 10 years ago, about 6 minutes: https://youtu.be/jErqdRE5zpQ?si=A1kK2FhR9-LhoZIU https://youtu.be/jErqdRE5zpQ?si=A1kK2FhR9-LhoZIU A bit less familiar with it so a quick and dirty video I suppose but a great demonstration of what it would be like to use one now. Essential history! Thanks!
RodgerTheGreat 2y ago
You can try out the Cat in emulation from the comfort of your browser: https://archive.org/details/canoncat https://archive.org/details/canoncat
- watersb 2y ago
  Phenomenal. Excellent catch! If only I could convince mobile browsers to enable the onscreen keyboard in web-based emulators... For instance, Infinite Macintosh has an explicit "Keyboard" that I should trivially peek at. It has a different problem mapping the iOS keyboard to ancient computers. Hmm. Has anyone figured out a way to work around this?

kalleboo 2y ago

> I can't find any demo or screen shots of the Canon Cat system in use There's an advertising video on YouTube showing it in use for text editing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c

watersb 2y ago
Wow, of course.. didn't think of video. That video is great, a VCR tape collection of corporate demos by Jef Raskin's company, apparently for investors and resellers. YouTube suggested a short, informal demo posted only 10 years ago, about 6 minutes: https://youtu.be/jErqdRE5zpQ?si=A1kK2FhR9-LhoZIU https://youtu.be/jErqdRE5zpQ?si=A1kK2FhR9-LhoZIU A bit less familiar with it so a quick and dirty video I suppose but a great demonstration of what it would be like to use one now. Essential history! Thanks!

RodgerTheGreat 2y ago

You can try out the Cat in emulation from the comfort of your browser: https://archive.org/details/canoncat https://archive.org/details/canoncat

watersb 2y ago
Phenomenal. Excellent catch! If only I could convince mobile browsers to enable the onscreen keyboard in web-based emulators... For instance, Infinite Macintosh has an explicit "Keyboard" that I should trivially peek at. It has a different problem mapping the iOS keyboard to ancient computers. Hmm. Has anyone figured out a way to work around this?