contemplating selling my Canon Cat

Hi That is too bad. I consider the Cat as one of the machines I'd be least likely to sell. Most had considered the CAT to be a closed system. Of course, this wasn't true. There was actually a development package one could get that included manuals on how to deal with the Forth inside. I'd found a copy of these in the Standford Special Collections Library. They are real fussy about copying but I spent several hours making notes. I've posted much of the information I've gathered on the DigiBarn site. I was mostly interested in connecting a HP printer to the machine since I didn't have one of the Canon printers. Besided the unique editor, the machine had the potential to be much more than was the final version that Canon released. Jef Raskin complained that by the time it made it to the market, it was stripped down. Because the cheap printer they sold with it didn't have proportional spacing, most believed that it couldn't handle it. Of course the code was in there ready to use with the right printer. Other compromises were made as well. The mother board has spots for another 256K of RAM. Looking at the disk drive, it seems to be a 400K single sided drive that the Cat only used 256K of. The processor is a 68K but the Forth inside is easy to work with since most any low level words a person could want to access hardware are all ready there. One can also write code for it directly in the editor and then simply compile the code into RAM. Since the machine keeps an image of the RAM on disk, one can either just save the source or keep the compiled code for other purposes. I've spent many hours of enjoyment exploring my Cat. I know there is much more that I've not dug into. Dwight _________________________________________________________________ Watch ?Cause Effect,? a show about real people making a real difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause