Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer (2023)

Recently 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

As 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/

Tablets and smartphones are great kitchen computers, as long as you remember to clean and disinfect them before any food preparation.

"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.

I 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.

> built-in cutting board

Hey, that's a great spot to place my Macbook.

So cutting edge you wouldn't even need a kitchen knife

ohmuhgawd! 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