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Thanks to @jk for pulling this up

The "Canon Cat" was a dedicated writing machine/word processor designed by Jeff Raskin for Canon Inc. in 1987. It originally sold for around $1500 and came with a Motorola 68000 running at 5 MHz and 256Kb RAM

There was one 3.5" floppy (256K max) drive to the left of the screen

These model photos scanned by Marcin Wichary

Real on-screen text sample by Flickr user "MJM1977"

More hardware info available at:
canoncat.org/

#RetroHardware

My fave #Android feature is when I turn on the wifi and every app starts fighting over resources because they NEEEEDDDD to sync
RIGHT.
NOW!
and it's anyone's guess if the system is just gonna freeze for a bit then move on, freeze completely or freeze then auto-reboot.

I love it 🙃

More libc ideas:

region locked libc
libc with DRM extensions
LaaS (libc as a service)

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