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My uncle was one of the programmers on the Cat project, he still has a working production unit. The Cat is a handsome little machine. There's something elegant
by avdempsey 13y ago
My uncle was one of the programmers on the Cat project, he still has a working production unit. The Cat is a handsome little machine. There's something elegant about its lack of silos: all of your (textual) data is in one space that you leap around with the aid of dedicated search forwards/backwards keys, reprogramming or extending the system itself is likewise a keystroke away. It obviously wasn't a commercial success, but the user was indisputably the boss of the thing.
- keithpeter 13y ago"but the user was indisputably the boss of the thing." Thanks for posting: I read Raskin's The Humane Interface some time ago. I wondered then and now if the fact that the user was the boss was actually part of the problem with sales? Reasonably steep learning curve?
- mmastrac 13y agoHe should dump the ROM off that thing to preserve it.