ID computer

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Wed May 23 00:39:19 2001

It was thus said that the Great Louis Schulman once stated:
>
> On 23 May 2001 2:49:6 +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>
> #Louis, is your interest purely academical, or do dedicated wordpro's
> appeal to
> #some of your base instincts?
> #Please, enlighten us. ;-9
> #
> As noted in another post, the Cannon Cat was much more than a dedicated
> word processor, it was in fact a quite different technology that never
> caught on. It is highly collectable, at least in THIS country.

  Are you talking about the US? Given the lack of information about it on
the web, you'd think it was a little known computer that never really saw
the light of day.

  My interest in it is from a software UI perspective. I would love to play
around with one for a week or two to get a feel for how it works (from a
user perspective). I have enough computers at home to worry about to add one
that probably won't talk to the others. But I found the description Jef
Raskin gave of the Swyft Card (from _Programers at Work_) fascinating and
dead on at times. Enough to want to implement the system on modern machines
some day.

  His work I think is being used, though not on general computers but the
hand held market like the Palms and Newtons. Those pretty much *are*
information appliances although far from what he (and Jobs) envisioned.

  -spc (Programmer at heart ... )
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