Flashback #tech
The Old VCR blog – it's short for Old Vintage Computing Research – is recommended reading, and one latest post features a deep dive into one of the most important, radical, and revolutionary – not to mention little-known – computers ever invented: the Canon Cat.
https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/05/refurb-weekend-canon-cat.html
Part of the original idea was that it wouldn't even have a power button: as he noted, appliances such as toasters or landline telephones don't need power switches - it's hard to imagine how radical the device was back then. Raskin wanted to eliminate many of the ideas, inherited from 1970s-era, text-based computers, which dominated computing then and in many ways still do.
if it had thrived and grown, owners could have purchased new functionality which would add new abilities to its single, all-encompassing onboard software
the Canon Cat and the Mac that Steve Jobs killed.
https://www.reproof.app/blog/on-designing-a-more-humane-computer