What is the Dogcow?
The dogcow is an innocent enough seeming creature that is familiar to most fans of the Macintosh and Apple®: computer systems. In 1983, Susan Kare was inventing various dingbat symbols for the Cairo font, and used a small white dog with black spots, similar to those of a cow, for the letter z. Known affectionately as Clarus by some Mac users, the symbols was suggested as an icon for printing options on several MAC operating systems (OS) for laser printers. The name dogcow didn’t come until 1987, when Scott Zimmerman coined it. Up until OS 9, when you clicked on the options for printing pages, you could see the small dogcow oriented in different directions. Another feature of the dogcow that many people enjoyed was what it said when it was clicked on. A click of the mouse would cause the animal to say “Moof!” a nice blend of dog and cow sounds. For many the dogcow was yet another one of the humorous and enjoyable aspects of Mac computers. Yet when OS 10 was introduced the dogcow was
