We don't agree with OS News' "Ten Most Beautiful Computers," but their piece by editor Thom Holwerda did provide a blast from the past--a look at Honeywell's 1969 H316 "Kitchen Computer." It was either ahead of its time, or slightly to the side of it.
Honeywell put their early computer foray up on a pedestal, literally. The 100-pound behemoth came with its own base, and never mind logic board--it came with a built-in cutting board. The chief purpose of the computer was to store recipes that were communicated back to the end-user via a blinking panel of binary lights!
But the kicker is the advertising tagline featured on the Neiman-Marcus brochure: "If only she can cook as well as Honeywell can compute." Small wonder this thing never took off....
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