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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But what we expect from computers has become more complex. First of all we'd expect a pretty and responsive GUI fully in line with all the latest apps. Secondly we'd expect to be able to do searches like, show me all cold vegetarian appetizers using eggs and asparagus, but no leeks, and we'd expect the search to be instantanious. We'd also expect it to search online for a recipe if it couldn't find anything stored locally, and to play mp3s to us while we cook. 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. No way you could do all of that with a 25MHz microcontroller.