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Kitchen computer, true or false? - Tom (UK) - 02-10-2006
While looking at the following good web site I found:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=927
Am I being taken in? This can't be true??? I have my doubts (2.5MHz is fast for late 60's and very few details - love the picture and inbuilt chopping board!).
As a spoof it's quite funny, and possibly true - there were some wackey ideas in the 60's - and who knew where computers were going to end up!
Re: Kitchen computer, true or false? - Bill (Smithville, NJ) - 02-10-2006
Hi Tom,
Well - it's apparaently genuine. I just did a search on Honeywell's web site and found following:
At $10,000 each, I wonder if they sold any.
Bill
Re: Kitchen computer, true or false? - Maximilian Hohmann - 02-10-2006
Hi!
Quote:
At $10,000 each, I wonder if they sold any.
In your Honeywell link, it says:
"Not surprisingly, no Kitchen Computers were sold."
But if you do a Google or Wikipedia search, you will find endless references to it
Greetings, Max
Re: Kitchen computer, true or false? - Tom (UK) - 02-10-2006
I clicked on the 'read more' button and there are a few more details including being promoted as a kitchen computer to get free publicity. So not intended for a chopping board! or the kitchen! But not sure of the real intended market.
Re: Kitchen computer, true or false? - Eric Smith - 02-10-2006
It exists. There's one on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It's believed that only a single unit was actually manufactured.