Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.
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episode 98: The Canon Cat
This time we are looking at a somewhat obscure machine: the Canon Cat. Designed by Jef Raskin, the Cat is sometimes called the spiritual successor to the Macintosh. That's a nice little epitaph, but doesn't fully explain the tangled mess of things between Raskin, Jobs, Apple, and the Mac. Today we will try to untangle some of that mess as we examine a fascinating little computer that could have changed the world.
Selected Sources:
http://www.canoncat.net/ -- Everything about the Cat
https://archive.org/details/Apple_Mac_Selected_Papers_1980/ -- Raskin's Macintosh memos
https://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/writings/millions.html -- Computers by the Millions