A Spiritual Heir to the Macintosh by Ezra Shapiro from the October 1987 issue of Byte The Canon Cat may be Jef Raskin’s long-sought “information appliance” Editor’s note: The following is a BYTE product preview. It is not a review. We provide an advance look at this new product because we feel it is significant. The Canon Cat is being advertised as a piece of office equipment-the next step beyond the memory typewriter-but there’s some real computer muscle under this feline’s skin.