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I still don't have the Cat printing completely, and I need to bring up my IW2 to complete the stand off. But I'm getting close. I suppose I should have a Plus on there, but the SE was available in March 1987, which lines up pretty much with the Canon Cat. It's really weird using one, if you haven't had the time to play with one.
It was free, how could I say no? Sure, the hard drive was dead and once I got it to boot from a replacement HDD the only stick of RAM in it gave errors, so I had to steal 256MB from my secret stash to get it running. And the CRT has some scratches that glow weird colors when it's on. This one has seen more than its share of danger, I feel, but the original owner had left it alongside the road by the trash cans. Into my car it went and while I can see why it was trashed, I'm glad I saved it. It's going to hang out in my living room for the time being.
Anybody know how to smooth out the CRT scratches? I was thinking of some of that fluid like you can get if your eyeglasses have bad scratches that fills in the crack and makes it more-or-less invisible, but I wasn't sure how the light of the CRT would work with it.
Anybody know how to smooth out the CRT scratches? I was thinking of some of that fluid like you can get if your eyeglasses have bad scratches that fills in the crack and makes it more-or-less invisible, but I wasn't sure how the light of the CRT would work with it.
Oh, this is neat!
I've always liked the design of the Canon Cat… Reminds me of the Lisa a bit.
I've always liked the design of the Canon Cat… Reminds me of the Lisa a bit.
The Cat is cool, but totally impractical for actual work of any kind (except typing words on the screen). If you sat down 100 people in front of a Plus w/ MacWrite, and next to that a Canon Cat and told them to do some work (let them figure out the work) --- 100 of those people would be productive enough on the Plus, and not know what the f(*#(*$ is going on with the Cat
I'd love to see a Cat in person some day...
Good quality CRTs have an antireflective coating over the glass. That's why you aren't supposed to use amonia based cleaners like Windex.
On the other hand, once your display is all scratched to hello, there's not much point in trying to preserve the antireflective coating.
Peace,
Drew
On the other hand, once your display is all scratched to hello, there's not much point in trying to preserve the antireflective coating.
Peace,
Drew
I used Kleer, a cleaner for LCD screens and stripped all the anti-reflective coating off my Studio monitor for my G4 cube. So be careful.
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I no longer have a clue how many residents there are - I think they are waking up while I'm asleep and multiplying