It was missing WiFi.
It was missing WiFi.
Old stuff like this is really interesting but it feels like a solution looking for a problem. Most people would not want to learn to use one of these and even more could not afford it if they did.
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>The Honeywell Kitchen Computer, famously advertised with the quip, “If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute,” was a bold but impractical attempt to bring computing power into the home in 1969. Long before personal computers became a staple of modern life, the idea of owning a computer seemed baffling to most people. The proposed answer to this question was surprisingly simple: to store recipes.
Old stuff like this is really interesting but it feels like a solution looking for a problem. Most people would not want to learn to use one of these and even more could not afford it if they did.
Archive: https://archive.today/vvHUS
From the post:
>>The Honeywell Kitchen Computer, famously advertised with the quip, “If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute,” was a bold but impractical attempt to bring computing power into the home in 1969.
Long before personal computers became a staple of modern life, the idea of owning a computer seemed baffling to most people. The proposed answer to this question was surprisingly simple: to store recipes.