Star Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer: the Biggest Flop in Computing
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Nov 2008 00:43 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems 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
by dagw on Mon 1st Dec 2008 14:56 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: 0.6MHz likely"
dagw
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2005-07-06

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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RE[4]: 0.6MHz likely
by helf on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 14:31 in reply to "RE[3]: 0.6MHz likely"
helf Member since:
2005-07-06

I would totally use that ;)

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