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From: Jim on 16 Apr 2010 07:01 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. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Elliott Roper on 16 Apr 2010 07:52 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. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Woody on 16 Apr 2010 08:34 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? -- Woody
From: Woody on 16 Apr 2010 08:40 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! -- Woody
From: Pd on 16 Apr 2010 09:26
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. -- Pd |