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Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer: the Biggest Flop in Computing
Linked by
Thom Holwerda
on Sat 29th Nov 2008 00:43 UTC
El Reg has a
write-up on the amazingly beautiful and hopelessly impractical Honeywell Kitchen Computer
. We've covered this bizarre piece of computing history before on OSNews, in my
list of the ten most beautiful computers
. For those that have no idea what I'm talking about, read on for more details. Trust me, you want to know.
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RE[3]: 0.6MHz likely
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dagw
on Mon 1st Dec 2008 14:56 UTC in reply to "
RE[2]: 0.6MHz likely
"
Member since:
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If we where even more demanding we might expect it to come up with wine suggestions based on the ingredients in a menu using some sort of AI routine.
...Actually that sounds like a fun project. I might have to give it a go.
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