| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 26 Jul 2001 at 09:56:23 |
| Subject: | Re: Canon Cat (fwd) |
On 26-Jul-01, G.A.Griggs wrote:
> Hello,Question posed to me on another list.
SSubject: [sg1] Re: Canon Cat
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> I actually still have one of these.
It's a rare and valuable antique. Even Jef Raskin, who designed it (and
started the Apple Mac) doesn't own one. Very few were made. (The Cat he
is holding in the picture is a model.)
> I've got a couple of novel length
> stories on disks that I can't get to come up in any other program. A
> Cat is a crossbreed- or a work processor. Pop in your disk, turn it
> on and you're in business. I only quit using it because I got into
> real computers, and had trouble finding a printer which could speak
> it's language after the old one broke. The BJ-100 can be rigged to
> work if you have the patience to play with the switches. But
> everything you store can't be brought up again. The modems are too
> slow to interact with anything now, so you can't upload the files in
> ASCII.
I don't understand this bit. It ought to be possible to make a null
modem connection to another computer and get something across. Do we
know what the sockets on the back are like? Is there a serial or a
parallel port?
It ought to be possible to link to an Amiga in some way and use a simple
comms program.
You could get an Amiga to pretend to be a printer and save the Cat's
output to disk.
It might also be worth while to contact Jef (www.jefraskin.com) for
advice.
Regards
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