Jef Raskin’s Canon Cat
Few things in technology excites me more than an amazing computer I have never heard of before - especially one with pedigree.
Many people take a casual glance at this machine and say, "Isn't that an overgrown word processor?" And one could certainly think so, in part because of its keyboard-centric operation, but mostly from the utterly uncomprehending way Canon advertised it in 1987
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