"Cat Reference Guide" – via Internet Archive.
#JEF RASKIN SOFTWARE#
The project was designed to eventually replace current software user interfaces. There is a defunct software project called Archy, initiated by Raskin, to develop a similar yet even more capable system for current computing systems. The total weight of the system is 17 pounds (7.7 kg).Īn extensive range of application software is built into 256 KB of ROM: standard office suite programs, communications, a 90,000-word spelling dictionary, and user programming toolchains for Forth and assembly language.Ī text-only machine, the Cat includes graphics routines in ROM as well as connectors for a mouse or other pointing device that are never used.
#JEF RASKIN SERIAL#
The Cat's array of I/O interfaces encompasses one Centronics parallel port, one RS-232C serial port ( DB-25), and two RJ11 telephone jacks for the modem loop. Setup and user preference data are stored in 8 KB of non-volatile (battery backed-up) RAM. He created and led the Macintosh project at Apple Computer Inc., and is the author of the new book. It uses a Motorola 68000 CPU (like the Macintosh, Lisa, Atari ST, and Amiga) running at 5 MHz, has 256 KB of RAM, and an internal 300/1200 bit/s modem. Jef Raskin is a writer and interface design consultant. The machine's hardware consists of a 9-inch (229 mm) black-and-white monitor (80 x 24 character display, 672 x 344 resolution), a single 3½-inch 256 KB floppy disk drive, and an IBM Selectric–compatible keyboard. The Cat also uses special "Leap keys", which, when held down, allows the user to incrementally search for strings of characters. Instead of using a traditional command-line interface or menu system, the Cat makes use of its special keyboard, with commands being activated by holding down a "Use Front" key and pressing another key. All data are seen as a long "stream" of text broken into several pages. It features a text user interface, not making use of any pointer ( mouse), icons, or graphics. BYTE in 1987 described the Cat as "a spiritual heir to the Macintosh". Information Appliance developed the Swyft computer prototype, and then developed and licensed it to Canon as the Cat. After leaving the company in 1982 and founding Information Appliance, Inc., he began designing a new computer closer to his original vision of an inexpensive, utilitarian "people's computer". On the surface, it was not unlike dedicated word processors popular in the late 1970s to early 1980s, but it was far more powerful, and incorporated many unique ideas for data manipulation.Ĭanon Cat is primarily the creation of Jef Raskin, the originator of the Macintosh project at Apple. The History of Apple's Pascal "Syntax" Poster, 1979-80.Task-dedicated single-unit desktop computerĬanon Cat is a task-dedicated desktop computer released by Canon Inc.Talk time: Jef Raskin by Jason Walsh at The Guardian (, archived ).The Mac's creator on Apple, Jobs and his new project by Dennis Sellers at MacMinute (, archived ).Articles from Jef Raskin about the history of the Macintosh by Matt Mora (archived ).'Jef Raskin' Apple-1 - number 51 at the Apple-1 Registry.Jef Raskin articles A to Z at Usability Views.Jef official site at Source Forge (archived ).
#JEF RASKIN MOVIE#
↑ Jobs (2013): Full Cast & Crew, Internet Movie Database.↑ Macintosh’s Other Designers by John Markoff and Ezra Shapiro at Byte p.347-356.Raskin was portrayed by actor Brett Gelman in the 2013 film dramatization Jobs. Jef Raskin passed away on February 26, 2005, at the age of 61, reportedly due to cancer. Archy is a system incarnating his concepts of the humane interface, by using open source elements within his rendition of a ZUI or zooming user interface. Released in 1987, the Cat was closer to Raskin's vision of how the Macintosh should have been designed as a simpler information appliance.Īt the beginning of the new millennium, Raskin undertook the building of Archy (formerly The Humane Environment, or THE). After Apple Īfter leaving Apple, Raskin joined Canon to design the Canon Cat. However, he clashed with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs over the design of the Macintosh and left the project by 1981.
#JEF RASKIN MAC#
He hired his former student Bill Atkinson along with Bud Tribble from UCSD to join the Mac development team at Apple. His Macintosh project proposal was approved by Mike Markkula in 1979. Raskin joined Apple Computer as the 31st employee on January 3, 1978, the company's first anniversary.
As an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), he taught classes ranging from computer science to photography. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University. in Philosophy from the State University of New York and a M.S.
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