ID computer

It was thus said that the Great Chris Halarewich once stated: Jef Raskin was at Apple Computers in the late 70s, early 80s and was working on an information appliance called the Macintosh [1] when Steve Jobs came in and took the project over [2]. Jef left shortly thereafter when it became apparent his original design was being discarded. He tried making an information appliance on his own (based on the Apple ][, with some special hardware) but that didn't go anywhere (Swyft machine). He then ended up in Cannon where he finally made the machine he wanted to---the Cannon Cat. There's not much out there, but the machine itself seems pretty neat. Here are a (the?) few sites that have anything at all about the machine: http://www.spies.com/~aek/orphanage.html http://www.regnirps.com/SEF/oddities.htm http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/cat.html http://www.regnirps.com/resume.htm http://www.jefraskin.com/curriculum_vitae.html http://www.argyle-design.com/html/portfolio_html/products/swift.html http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi22KeyboardVMouse2.html Jef Raskin's own site is at http://www.jefraskin.com/ . He has some very interesting ideas about UIs and I find his work facinating, although the average geek seem to miss his point (in the last year there have been two articles on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/) about Jef Raskin and the general population there hasn't been kind to Jef). -spc (Would love to play around with a Cannon Cat ... ) [1] The original Macintosh was a text and keyboard computer based originally around the 6809. Jef Raskin was never a fan of GUIs (and he particularly hates mice). [2] I believe that upper management at Apple were tired of Steve Jobs and wanted him to go away really. They either gave him the Macintosh project to keep him away from the day to day operations, or they kept him away from the day to day operations and he glommed into the Macintosh project as something to do.