The Honeywell Kitchen Computer

[aa-jv]

I have an older (first-generation) iPad dedicated to my kitchen, for recipes and viewing things while cooking.

It strikes me as the perfect place for it, these days.

I've considered, many times, what life would be like if the Kitchen iPad could connect to the fridge and the air fryer and coordinate my food intake planning and execution .. but I'm really, really not ready to let that level of control enter my life. Yet.

Its sort of amusing to see the level of intrusion that Honeywell were willing to accept .. but there was scant consideration given to the privacy issues. What a world we've created ..

[djmips]

I feel like this was probably their idea of an Onion article style humour at the time although it's obviously patronizing when looked at today.

[MadnessASAP]

Onion style humor is called satire. I don't believe Honeywell was aiming for satire, rather just a joke at the wife's expense.

[dang]

Related. Others?

When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439 - April 2022 (60 comments)

Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30421628 - Feb 2022 (4 comments)

The oldest problem in computing - Recipes - How do you solve it? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544666 - April 2009 (10 comments)

The $62,550 machine no one bought - Honeywell's Kitchen Computer remembered - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378603 - Nov 2008 (3 comments)

[gnabgib]

Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer (5 points, 3 years ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30421628

When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) (50 points, 3 years ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439

The oldest problem in computing - Recipes - How do you solve it? (6 points, 16 years ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544666

[nivertech]

… and then they pivoted to B2B ;)

[lostlogin]

Any ideas on what the font is in the 3rd image? I like it.

‘MENU SELECTION BY HONEYWELL KITCHEN COMPUTER’

[Cumpiler69]

If you Google "classic computer font that's on cheques", you'll find it as the first result.

[Numerlor]

While many orders of magnitude more performant it is funny when my GPU pulls the same amount of power as that huge computer