![]() Instead, there is a dedicated “undo/redo” button redoing the last undone action is always an exact negation. Let us start with the simple things: no Caps Lock key on the Cat (or Macintosh-that-was not, or the Swyft to give it Raskin’s post-Apple name) so no CCIDENTAL SHOUTING WHEN YOU MISS THE A KEY. But to understand it, you can pick up his book, “The Humane Interface”. To see Raskin’s vision in practice, you have to find a Canon Cat which is very difficult because Canon’s typewriter division did not do a very good job of selling any. But the software would have been entirely different. ![]() From a hardware perspective the Mac would have looked a lot more like an Apple ][ than a Lisa, reflecting Raskin’s belief that the computer should be accessible to the masses (and by extension, affordable). It is what is on the inside that counts, and that would have been radically different. Outwardly, the Macintosh would have looked a lot like the one that was released: a little friendly box with a screen and a floppy drive on the front. He managed to avoid Steve Jobs’s ire for a while by not telling Jobs about the project, but after the Lisa failed and with Woz recovering from a plane crash, Steve needed something to do and checked in on what the former director of the documentation group was up to. Sometimes known as the father of the Mac, sometimes as its eccentric uncle, the project was originally under the direction of computer scientist Jef Raskin. It is a fairly well-known, but perhaps not broadly appreciated, fact that Apple’s Macintosh could have been a very different computer.
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