OMG, it’s here!!! Promised myself not to open this until I finish the current chapter (tomorrow), but it will be HARD. !!!!!pic.twitter.com/ttWHpqRAVf
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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OMG, it’s here!!! Promised myself not to open this until I finish the current chapter (tomorrow), but it will be HARD. !!!!!pic.twitter.com/ttWHpqRAVf
(This is something keyboard-related and something I wanted to have for 15 years or so.)
Say hello to Canon Cat – a magical, forgotten machine from the late 1980s.pic.twitter.com/53XOnmYHsF
It was designed by Jef Raskin, the creator of the Macintosh project, after he left/was kicked out of Apple by Steve Jobs (who took it over).
In some ways, it’s an anti-Macintosh, a computer without a mouse or even arrow keys, based all on text.pic.twitter.com/gkhAbEBPTO
And, of course, it was the Macintosh - in the before time.
Can you tell me more about what you mean by this?
Just that Raskin’s orig vision for the Macintosh is basically what the Cat turned out to be, after Jobs took over and Raskin was out.
I’m not sure if it’s such a straightforward story. The idea of what Mac should be kept changing so much in its early days…
I wrote an article about this once: https://medium.com/@mwichary/the-changing-face-of-the-mac-7c4ab7c3fff4 …
Plus I am not sure if Cat is a friendly computer from Raskin’s early memos. It feels much more Engelbartian to me.
Also, apparently Cat was missing some things Raskin wanted, e.g. a mouse (!), although who knows how much of this is true.
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