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Description:
This group is for those interested in the Canon Cat
and Jef Raskin's concepts of humane interfaces. This
also includes Jef's earlier SwyftWare and SwyftCard
for the Apple II and the Swyft prototype machine.
This includes both hardware and software aspects
of these.
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Cat wanted in the UK
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Hi all,
Does anyone here live in the UK, and have a Canon Cat they'd like to
sell? I've seen them appear on EBay extremely rarely, but they're
almost always in the USA rather than the UK, and I wouldn't trust that
the 'Cat would survive the flight to the UK.
I've seen some instructions re adapting a 'Cat to work on UK voltage,... more »
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Hello
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wow this is crazy you should give it a look [link]
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SwyftCard and FORTH
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Hey all, Was FORTH exposed in the SwyftCard like it was in the Cat? That is, can one write FORTH code in EDDE and execute it? I don't see any mention of an "execute" command in the SwyftCard manual, but wondered if perhaps this was a hidden feature. I know the focus of the SwyftCard wasn't providing a FORTH environment, but it would be cool if it did that, too. ;)... more »
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bits and bytes
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Hi all. This is a we bit off topic but relates to the time period of the Cat, or earlier. I had been ignoring the Arduino crowd mostly because of the inane toy applications - make LEDs blink that are sewn to your clothes for example. However, I sell some ARM7 boards that are Arduino compatible (and a zillion times faster) and finally bought a couple of Arduino Pro boards... more »
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Canon Cat ROM and files
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Greetings, all.
A while back I downloaded a zip file of various canon cat files
including some of the original forth code used in the system. It was
a great resource and a nice collection of computing history.
Unfortunately, I lost the archive- and due to Google removing the
files section of groups I'm not sure how I can retrieve them.... more »
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SwyftCard
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Does anyone have a SwyftCard for sale? Thanks. kelli
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Preserving Swyftware and Cat diskettes
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Hi, all,
I recall that the custom floppy format used by Swyft and the Cat was
one of the reasons why emulation was difficult.
Guerrilla archivist Jason Scott has set up the Internet Archive with
one of these:
[link]
It appears to be able to save preservation-quality raw bitstreams,... more »
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Touchpad a leap keys?
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You know how a bunch of laptops have a touchpad practically beneath the thumbs? Well, that's right where the LEAP keys would be. Since a Cat doesn't have a mouse, why not repurpose the left and right sides of the touchpad as LEAP keys? Which brings me around to asking if there is a way to run the Cat software on a modern machine? Does Canon still care about... more »
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Best Bumper Sticker Ever
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Forth Love If Honk Then Only it had a red heart. We need to reprint those. I saw many a perplexed person in the rear-view mirror. -- Charlie
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