Computer Chronicles episode about the Canon NoteJet

One my favorite computers ever manufactured is the Canon Notejet, manufacted by the Canon subsidiary Canon Computer Systems, Inc. in a collaboration with IBM.

Today I found out that Computer Chronicles gave the Canon NoteJet IIIcx (also branded as ‘BN 200’) some attention and wanted to highlight that here:

It is a part from the “Small Business Computing” episode from 1995, near the end of the episode.

A few years ago I also saw a YouTube video of someone using their NoteJet or ThinkPad 555 in their car and I haven’t been able to find it again. If anyone knows, let me know! :)

Transcript of the video:

Now for my pick of the week. What I’m about to show you is not for everyone. It’s a little pricey over $5,000, but it is an incredible piece of technology if your business keeps you on the road. This is the new Canon NoteJet laptop computer. First of all, it’s got a Pentium 90MHz processor, a nice big color active-matrix screen, and lots of memory.

But catch this, when you open up the keyboard on this laptop computer, you have the sheet feeder for a built in color bubble jet printer. Hit the button for print, and you’ve got hard copy coming out of your laptop. It is a color printer, so you get good looking color output like that. What I’m printing right now is just a black and white document out of a word processor, and you’ll see it spits right out of the back. And there is the document we just printed from our laptop computer.

But that is not all. This little portable computer is also a scanner. All you have to do is open it up in the back here, pop out the print head, drop in this scan head in its place, and you can now put documents inside here, scan documents into your computer. This is really a portable office for the traveling business person. It’s a powerful computer, plus the ability to input documents and to output documents.

It’s the Canon Notejet IIIcx. Yes. It’s a little heavy for a laptop, but compared to lugging around a portable printer and a scanner, easy decision. Okay. That’s it for this week’s Computer Chronicles.

We’ll be back here again next week with another half hour of the latest in personal computer technology. I’m Stuart Cheifet. We’ll see you here next time.