Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer (2023)
29 points by glimshe 1 week ago | 10 comments- gnabgib 1 week agoRecently 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
- skyechurch 1 week agoAs 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/
- musicale 1 week agoTablets and smartphones are great kitchen computers, as long as you remember to clean and disinfect them before any food preparation.
- nottorp 1 week agoIs there anything in Corning's marketing about using smart thingies as cutting boards?
- nottorp 1 week ago
- WWLink 1 week 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.
- os2warpman 1 week agoI 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.
- glitchc 1 week ago> built-in cutting board
Hey, that's a great spot to place my Macbook.
- helix278 1 week agoSo cutting edge you wouldn't even need a kitchen knife
- dylan604 1 week agoohmuhgawd! 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
- nartho 1 week agoI'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
- nartho 1 week ago