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Posted by: chris on 2008-08-26 16:53:03
WOO!
There was an ad on the local CL advertising this beautiful old computer, with original boxes, some disks, and a printer, all for free! I fired off an email and after a long and fairly slow conversation, I'm picking it up from the guy's parents' house Friday.
Can't wait to try it out - it's replacing the long-held spot of the seldom-used iMac on my desk, next to the phone line, where I'm going to try to get it to BBS with the internal modem.
Also been looking at FORTH, going to try some programs on it.
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Posted by: paws on 2008-08-26 17:51:34
EH?
Those things are worth thousands
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Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2008-08-27 10:11:31
A very nice catch indeed! Photos pleaase.
I don't know how many people are going to pay thousands of Euros, Dollars or whatever for one, however.
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Posted by: chris on 2008-08-27 11:38:06
Like I said, picking up Friday, but will upload photos then.
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Posted by: paws on 2008-08-27 12:04:09
I don't know how many people are going to pay thousands of Euros, Dollars or whatever for one, however. Mate of mine's been looking, the cheapest he's seen is 1000 USD... he's from New York.
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Posted by: coius on 2008-08-27 13:02:00
isn't that the one that bill raskin designed?
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Posted by: slomacuser on 2008-08-27 13:21:36
Jef Raskin not Bill 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
The Cat used most ideas he wanted the Macintosh to be ...
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Posted by: skeletor on 2008-08-27 16:26:16
Jef Raskin not Bill 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
The Cat used most ideas he wanted the Macintosh to be ... And rumour has it, when Canon was investing in NeXT, Jobs got Canon to kill the Cat project...Which pissed off Raskin...Jeff passed away about a yr or two ago...
Some years ago, Raskin along with some early Macintosh project pioneers, received from Apple, a MAC PLUS, noted as the millionth PLUS built.
From all the reading I have done about Mr.Raskin, that PLUS was used by him for many years...
Funny how Jobs secured much of his initial wealth, while Raskin ended up with crumbs...and Even away from Apple at NeXT, Jobs had to stick it to him..
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Posted by: chris on 2008-08-29 19:52:35
It's here.
Will post pics tomorrow, but I can say this:
It came entirely in its original beat-up packaging, including styrofoam, with all manuals in perfect condition. The machine itself is extremely dirty on the outside but smells fine, no smoke smell, and works perfectly. It came with a Cat 180 daisy-wheel printer and 2 extra ribbons. This is working perfectly also, and prints beautiful crisp writing with boldface and underlining. Out of curiosity, I used the "Erase" function on a Mac 800k disk, and then recorded 'test test test' to it. Worked perfectly too.
Gonna try BBSing tomorrow.
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Posted by: MacMan on 2008-08-30 10:56:25
8-o
Wow, what a great find!
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Posted by: chris on 2008-09-04 14:04:37
Finally there are pictures!
http://picasaweb.google.com/486box/CanonCat#
Again, at some point in the distant future I'll upload some piccies of the printer and its results.
The system is very cool, especially disk operations. Each disk is 256k, and is a direct copy of all the memory in the computer. On boot, the Cat will load any disk in the drive into memory... the total time from boot to editing in this is maybe 15 seconds. I've used it for two school reports now.
I have tried BBSing, and it works, at a glorious 1200 baud.
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Posted by: tmtomh on 2008-09-06 12:50:59
No offense intended, but I have to admit I was skeptical until I saw the pics - WOW! Amazing conquest!
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Posted by: Asher on 2008-09-06 13:34:18
That's a beauty. Great find!
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Posted by: funkytoad on 2008-09-06 22:48:46
A real beauty indeed.
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Posted by: joelwatson on 2008-09-21 06:03:56
sorry. I did not mean to "pipe up." I just thought some else might be interested in buying mine. I withdraw my offer and will get off your board.
Joel Watson
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Posted by: joelwatson on 2008-09-21 06:04:48
sorry this got posted twice.
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Posted by: II2II on 2008-09-21 06:34:05
:lol: "I got one for free!" So someone else pipes up, "I'll sell mine for $1500!"
Anyway chris, cool find.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2008-09-21 13:53:35
Cool. The machine the Mac was supposed to be until Steve jobs got too involved with the project.
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Posted by: QuadSix50 on 2008-09-21 17:58:01
Congratulations on an exquisite find, Chris. 🙂
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