Canon Cat -- what's it really like?

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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>  It would be hard to create a software only emulator.
> The physical keyboard was as important as the software
> on this machine. Talking with Jeff, he said that
> several efforts have been made to get the keyboards on
> PC to work but there are just too many variations on
> how the keyboards are handled. It was left too much up to
> the builder of the machines. You really need low level
> access to key strokes and the layout is wrong as well.

Along with a Canon Cat, I've got an Apple //e with the SwyftCard
(basically the Canon Cat's firmware on a card that turns an Apple //e into
a Cat of sorts).  The keyboard has Cat labels on the individual keys to
"re-map" them to the Cat functions:

http://www.siconic.com/computers/Swyft%20Apple%20IIe.jpg
http://www.siconic.com/computers/Swyft%20Card.jpg

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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