Canon Cat

[1] Its appearance resembles dedicated word processors of the late 1970s to early 1980s, but it is far more powerful, and has many unique ideas for data manipulation.[5] The hardware consists of a 9-inch (229 mm) black-and-white monitor (80 x 24 character display, 672 x 344 resolution),[6] a single 3½-inch 256 KB floppy disk drive, and an IBM Selectric–compatible keyboard.A range of application software is built into 256 KB of ROM: a standard office suite, telecommunications, a 90,000-word spelling dictionary, and user programming toolchains for Forth and assembly language.[7] BYTE in 1989 said "The Cat is perfect for someone who needs industrial-strength editing and record keeping but doesn't require a full-blown computer system ...[8] Archy, originally called The Humane Environment, was a project initiated by Raskin in 2005 with similar principles to the Canon Cat.
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