29 pointsby glimshe6 days ago8 comments
  • gnabgib6 days ago
    Recently The Honeywell Kitchen Computer (51 points, 6 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42296485

    Older When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) (50 points, 2022, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439

  • skyechurch3 days ago
    As the article mentions, this is (or was, it's been a while) at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, along with other computing milestones and ambitious dead ends. They even have an apparently-functional Babbage Engine.

    https://computerhistory.org/ https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

  • musicale4 days ago
    Tablets and smartphones are great kitchen computers, as long as you remember to clean and disinfect them before any food preparation.
    • nottorp3 days ago
      Is there anything in Corning's marketing about using smart thingies as cutting boards?
  • WWLink3 days ago
    "If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute."

    Oh my goodness it's a satirical ad. I don't know the proper marketing term for it, but I've seen these in magazines before plenty of times.

    It's pretty funny that some people took this seriously.

  • os2warpman2 days ago
    I know that it was a joke but I still poked around to see if I could find any DDP-116 recipe software because the DDP-116 (H316) is available in simh.

    Didn’t find any.

  • helix2783 days ago
    So cutting edge you wouldn't even need a kitchen knife
  • glitchc3 days ago
    > built-in cutting board

    Hey, that's a great spot to place my Macbook.

  • dylan6043 days ago
    ohmuhgawd! that picture of the computer thing in the kitchen where it takes up all the space is so amazeballs funny. nobody would actually do this for anything other than a picture
    • nartho3 days ago
      I'm guessing people who could spend $90,000 for a computer to store their recipes were likely to have a kitchen big enough to accommodate this computer