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FS: Two Canon Cats & Prototype Swyft

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pookdolie

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For pick-up in Orange County, CA, or you pay shipping.

This thread tells the story about the rare Swyft with Jef's nametag:

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?t=12128

...and attached are pictures of the two Canon Cats also included in the deal (the live cat is not ;) ). The one in styrofoam isn't operational; dunno what's wrong with it. The other Cat and the Swyft work. Included is a copy of Jef Raskin's book "The Humane Interface" and a Canon Cat manual.

If you're a fan of Jef Raskin & his history, this is a pretty darn good lot. Looking to get $1500 for everything.

Send along any questions you may have via PM - thanks!
 

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Hi
These are cool machines. I wish I had a Swift. These
are truely rare.
These machines both have 68000 processors. Both
also have a Forth interpreter built in. It is something like
have OpenBoot on a Sun machine. You can get into
Forth and write code for whatever ( I wrote a driver
for my HP laserjet ). It gets saved along with the file
on the disk so it is not lost.
I have a Cat that I've beefed up with a full 512K of DRAM
and an additional 512K of static RAM. With this and source
code, I can regenerate ROMs with various changes.
This is a good price on todays market.
I'm curious about the one that isn't working. Is it completely
dead or do you get at least the drive light blinking?
Dwight
 
Would you be interested in any sort of trades or is this strictly cash only?
 
Dwight Elvey said:
Hi
These are cool machines. I wish I had a Swift. These
are truely rare.
These machines both have 68000 processors. Both
also have a Forth interpreter built in. It is something like
have OpenBoot on a Sun machine. You can get into
Forth and write code for whatever ( I wrote a driver
for my HP laserjet ). It gets saved along with the file
on the disk so it is not lost.
I have a Cat that I've beefed up with a full 512K of DRAM
and an additional 512K of static RAM. With this and source
code, I can regenerate ROMs with various changes.
This is a good price on todays market.
I'm curious about the one that isn't working. Is it completely
dead or do you get at least the drive light blinking?
Dwight
Click to expand...

Good question. The drive light on the one unit comes on for about half a second when the unit is turned on, then nothing. Notes on the box indicate the previous owner thought this to be a power supply issue.
 
pookdolie said:
Good question. The drive light on the one unit comes on for about half a second when the unit is turned on, then nothing. Notes on the box indicate the previous owner thought this to be a power supply issue.
Click to expand...

Hi
That would indicate that the code was running. I'd be more inclined
to think it was the CRT or video circuit. The pulsing of the light is
usually the boot code checking to see if there is a disk in the drive.
Dwight
 
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