[HN Gopher] Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer (2023)
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       Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer (2023)
        
       Author : glimshe
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2025-06-21 21:45 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | gnabgib wrote:
       | Recently _The Honeywell Kitchen Computer_ (51 points, 6 months
       | ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42296485
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       | Older _When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021)_ (50
       | points, 2022, 60 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439
        
       | musicale wrote:
       | Tablets and smartphones are great kitchen computers, as long as
       | you remember to clean and disinfect them before any food
       | preparation.
        
         | nottorp wrote:
         | Is there anything in Corning's marketing about using smart
         | thingies as cutting boards?
        
       | glitchc wrote:
       | > built-in cutting board
       | 
       | Hey, that's a great spot to place my Macbook.
        
       | dylan604 wrote:
       | ohmuhgawd! that picture of the computer thing in the kitchen
       | where it takes up _all_ the space is so amazeballs funny. nobody
       | would actually do this for anything other than a picture
        
         | nartho wrote:
         | I'm guessing people who could spend $90,000 for a computer to
         | store their recipes were likely to have a kitchen big enough to
         | accommodate this computer
        
       | skyechurch wrote:
       | As the article mentions, this is (or was, it's been a while) at
       | the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, along with
       | other computing milestones and ambitious dead ends. They even
       | have an apparently-functional Babbage Engine.
       | 
       | https://computerhistory.org/
       | https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/
        
       | helix278 wrote:
       | So cutting edge you wouldn't even need a kitchen knife
        
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