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> a high-end computer for the kitchen It's Honeywell all over again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316#Kitchen_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

• walterbell 11y ago
  The marketing is reminiscent of Amazon's fantasy delivery drone. "the user interface required the user to complete a two-week course just to learn how to program the device, using only toggle-switch input and binary light output ... Although a fantasy gift, the Kitchen Computer represented the first time a computer was offered as a consumer product."
  • pjc50 11y ago
    Note the (not so retro) sexism in the advert: it's targeted at a man buying it for his wife due to his dissatisfaction with her home economics.
• CamperBob2 11y ago
  They have one of those at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I'm not sure if it's one of the most awesome things I've ever seen or one of the stupidest, but either way, no Wikipedia article can do it justice. Everybody who lives in the area (or who works for Amazon) should spend an afternoon going through that museum. It's full of thought-provoking artifacts like that.