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* [https://archive.org/details/CatReferenceGuide Reference guide] | * [https://archive.org/details/CatReferenceGuide Reference guide] | ||
* [https://archive.org/details/CatWorkshopManual Workshop manual] | * [https://archive.org/details/CatWorkshopManual Workshop manual] | ||
+ | * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/canon-cat Canon Cat forum (Google Groups)] | ||
+ | * [http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/canon-cat/forthinside.html Enabling Forth on your Canon Cat] |
Latest revision as of 23:29, 23 April 2018
Preceding the cat memes of the Internet by a few years, Canon Cat was actually not any sort of feline, but a dedicated word-processor computer. It had a text-based interface without a mouse, icons, or menus (even though those elements were starting to catch on in computer interfaces at the time), instead using a variety of keyboard commands including special "leap keys" permitting searches within the document being edited. A 3 1/2" floppy disk drive was used for storage.