Refurb weekend: Canon Cat

Many people take a casual glance at this machine and say, \"Isn\'t that an overgrown word processor?\" And one could certainly think so, in part because of its keyboard-centric operation, but mostly from the utterly uncomprehending way Canon advertised it in 1987. Canon dubbed the Cat a \"work processor\" because of its built-in telecommunications, modem and word processor even though Jef Raskin, its designer, had intended it as a \"people\'s computer\" that could be inexpensive, accessible and fully functional — all things he had hoped to accomplish at Apple after first launching the Macintosh project, prior to departing in 1982.