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From: Rowland McDonnell on 17 Apr 2010 00:37 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > zoara wrote: > > Via daringfireball.net - loads of old computers. Jim, take a deep breath > > and don't get overexcited... > > > > http://j.mp/bxKP2P > > > > I really love the naivety of the "kitchen computer" (and the > > "yesterday's tomorrow" stylings > > They really did put a lot of effort not just into the creation of those, > but the image of them as well. I guess at the price they may as well! > > That kitchen computer - anyone know anything about it, like, how does it > hold recipes with lights and switches? ISTR reading the details once. 7 seg LEDs'll do for alpha output, just about. I see what appears to be a one line 7 seg LED display on that beastie, which is what my memory tells me it ought to have. And you can encode text data using binary and enter it using the front panel binary switches, one memory location at a time, the old fashioned way. I think the idea was that you'd get someone (bloody patient cook/nanny/cleaner, perhaps?) to enter your recipes for you, and you'd be able to show off your new toy at the next dinner party you held for your husband's latest business clients. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Woody on 17 Apr 2010 06:41 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > zoara wrote: > > > Via daringfireball.net - loads of old computers. Jim, take a deep breath > > > and don't get overexcited... > > > > > > http://j.mp/bxKP2P > > > > > > I really love the naivety of the "kitchen computer" (and the > > > "yesterday's tomorrow" stylings > > > > They really did put a lot of effort not just into the creation of those, > > but the image of them as well. I guess at the price they may as well! > > > > That kitchen computer - anyone know anything about it, like, how does it > > hold recipes with lights and switches? > > ISTR reading the details once. 7 seg LEDs'll do for alpha output, just > about. I see what appears to be a one line 7 seg LED display on that > beastie, which is what my memory tells me it ought to have. The computer at the center of this is the same machine, Honeywell 316 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_y944mbczg> Why they didn't just include the printer. I guess it was the budget model. Not like the one at bradwell nuclear reactor up until 2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 > And you can encode text data using binary and enter it using the front > panel binary switches, one memory location at a time, the old fashioned > way. > > I think the idea was that you'd get someone (bloody patient > cook/nanny/cleaner, perhaps?) to enter your recipes for you, and you'd > be able to show off your new toy at the next dinner party you held for > your husband's latest business clients. Well, it had more memory than a zx81 by default! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Ben Shimmin on 17 Apr 2010 08:15 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: [...] > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 I've just realised that this is the same Honeywell who make the swipe cards we use at work to get in the office. How curious. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Woody on 17 Apr 2010 14:03 Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > > [...] > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 > > I've just realised that this is the same Honeywell who make the swipe > cards we use at work to get in the office. How curious. Not that unusual. Most of those large american companies at the time made all manner of business machines, and had divisions that did different things. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Rowland McDonnell on 17 Apr 2010 20:38
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > zoara wrote: > > > > Via daringfireball.net - loads of old computers. Jim, take a deep breath > > > > and don't get overexcited... > > > > > > > > http://j.mp/bxKP2P > > > > > > > > I really love the naivety of the "kitchen computer" (and the > > > > "yesterday's tomorrow" stylings > > > > > > They really did put a lot of effort not just into the creation of those, > > > but the image of them as well. I guess at the price they may as well! > > > > > > That kitchen computer - anyone know anything about it, like, how does it > > > hold recipes with lights and switches? > > > > ISTR reading the details once. 7 seg LEDs'll do for alpha output, just > > about. I see what appears to be a one line 7 seg LED display on that > > beastie, which is what my memory tells me it ought to have. > > The computer at the center of this is the same machine, Honeywell 316 > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_y944mbczg> > > Why they didn't just include the printer. I guess it was the budget > model. > > Not like the one at bradwell nuclear reactor up until 2000. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 <heh> If it works, why change it? Oh Lord - binary light output even on the kitchen computer, specified by Wikip anyway. Hmm. I read about the beasties somewhere else, could have sworn I recall some mention of 7 seg LEDs which are after all really easy to drive from binary. > > And you can encode text data using binary and enter it using the front > > panel binary switches, one memory location at a time, the old fashioned > > way. > > > > I think the idea was that you'd get someone (bloody patient > > cook/nanny/cleaner, perhaps?) to enter your recipes for you, and you'd > > be able to show off your new toy at the next dinner party you held for > > your husband's latest business clients. > > Well, it had more memory than a zx81 by default! Core memory, yes; but the ZX81 had a larger file store. No end to what you can stick on cassettes... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |