It uses floppies, but there is no explicit saving. Overall, it’s a fascinating, enthralling, what-could-have-been vision of computing.
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I have always wanted to have it, and now I do, reunited with this 15-year-old book that inspired me so much.
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Jef Raskin died unexpectedly just before I came to the U.S. I never got a chance to meet him.
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I remember writing his obituary with a pit in my stomach.
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But now I have his computer that made me want to pursue being a particular kind of designer. I just cleaned up and restored it.pic.twitter.com/LtjECC3wQI
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I still have to fix the floppy drive and check the printer. But this is already amazing. I typed all of this on Cat itself…
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…which is so great to be able to say. (Of course it’s already in my book.) To the Cat! And to Jef Raskin.pic.twitter.com/Nkher4LCjL
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Wait, you typed these tweets on it? How did you get them to twitter?
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Haha. I retyped them. But it has a modem so maybe I’ll get it connected one day.
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Hook a WiFi232 up to it! http://biosrhythm.com/?page_id=1453
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Noooo… it’s sold out.
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They restock regularly. Talk to
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