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Canon Cat

Canon Cat is a task-dedicated desktop computer released by Canon Inc. in 1987.

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Published November 14, 2021
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This beauty was posted on Twitter by @TalpKeyboard without any context so I had to look this up.

Canon Cat is a task-dedicated desktop computer released by Canon Inc. in 1987 at the price of U.S. $1,495. 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 – Wikipedia.

Here is the full Wikipedia entry for more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat

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Published on Sun 14th Nov 2021. Featured in KBD #52.

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