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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
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Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition

by Owen Linzmayer
January 2004
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
344 pages
13h 15m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Apple Confidential 2.0, 2nd Edition
The Making of Macintosh
100
Canon Cat
Jef Raskin got another chance to realize some of his original Macintosh
design goals with a “work processor” he designed at his 14-person rm,
Information Appliance, founded in 1983. On July 7, 1987, after four years
of development, Canon introduced Raskin’s Cat, part personal computer,
part electronic typewriter. Although based upon a 5MHz 68000—the same
type of processor at the heart of the classic Macs—the Cat did not have a
mouse or icons. Instead it used “Leap’’ keys below the spacebar to gracefully
move between tasks and portions of the screen; hence the name “Cat.” It
came with word processor, spreadshee ...
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