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If you've not got the hardware, the Canon Cat can be run in emulation mode via the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/canoncat

I bought Jeff Raskin's book years ago in a moment of inspiration.... His ideas were thoughtful, but perhaps impractical? That was my impression nonetheless.

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I loved his book (the Humane Interface). I even used ideas from it to create RFPs for a client, and was able to better critique ideas.

Not having modes is still a big deal for me. Getting lost in menus and "not being able to get back" was something I dealt with a lot, and having this spell out my frustrations was very helpful.

That said, he really loved the interface of the Canon Cat; I had no idea what it was when it existed, and I only know of it through Wikipedia.

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