Canon Cat -- what's it really like?

[Geoff Reed]

At 05:09 PM 3/6/2005, you wrote:
>On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:47:31 -0800 (PST), Vintage Computer Festival
> > <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Pretty slick... any idea what the LM311 and the PAL do?  Copy protection?
>
>I have no idea, and the man best suited to answer the question is gone now
>;(  I'm sure some documentation still remains.  Bruce Damer of the
>DigiBarn might actually have some relevant stuff.  And least of all, I'm
>pretty certain all of Jef's notes and such will be preserved.

my guess would be address mapping for the rom... (the pal)