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==Early development==

Initially, the Cangjie input method was not intended to produce a character in any [[character set]]. Instead, it was part of an integrated system consisting of the Cangjie input ''rules'' and a Cangjie ''controller board''. This controller board contains [[Chinese character generator|character generator]] [[firmware]], which dynamically generates Chinese characters from Cangjie codes when characters are ''output'', using the hi-res graphics mode of the [[Apple II series|Apple II]] computer. In the preface of the [[#References|Cangjie user's manual]], [[Chu Bong-Foo]] wrote in 1982:

{{blockquote|[in translation]<br>In terms of output: The output and input, in fact, [form] an integrated whole; there is no reason that [they should be] dogmatically separated into two different facilities.… This is in fact necessary.…}}