From: Jim on
On 2010-04-16, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> 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).
>
> ObMac: image 18

I saw that yesterday but didn't have chance to post the link. Thanks anyway.
Some fascinationg stuff there.

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From: Elliott Roper on
In article <slrnhsggrh.5a.jim(a)wotan.magrathea.local>, Jim
<jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> On 2010-04-16, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> 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).
> >
> > ObMac: image 18
>
> I saw that yesterday but didn't have chance to post the link. Thanks anyway.
> Some fascinationg stuff there.

Picture no 8 (cool choice of picture number) is mislabelled. It is a
PDP-8/M or perhaps 8/F from about 1973. It was the last of the full
size 8s.

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From: Woody on
On 16/04/2010 11:50, 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?


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From: Woody on
On 16/04/2010 13:34, Woody wrote:
> On 16/04/2010 11:50, 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?

I didn't get the scale of it:
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Kitchen_computer_ad.jpg>
"If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute."

Came with a two week training course on how to use it. Whole package
$10,600.
I guess that is why they did better manuals back then!

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From: Pd on
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> I didn't get the scale of it:

Neither did I, until you posted this link:

> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Kitchen_computer_ad.jpg>
> "If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute."

Good grief. Love the patronising text too.

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