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Kitchen computer, true or false? Message #1 Posted by Tom (UK) on 10 Feb 2006, 9:14 a.m. While looking at the following good web site I found: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=927 Am I being taken in? This can't be true??? I have my doubts (2.5MHz is fast for late 60's and very few details - love the picture and inbuilt chopping board!). As a spoof it's quite funny, and possibly true - there were some wackey ideas in the 60's - and who knew where computers were going to end up!

Re: Kitchen computer, true or false? Message #2 Posted by Bill (Smithville, NJ) on 10 Feb 2006, 9:26 a.m., in response to message #1 by Tom (UK) Hi Tom, Well - it's apparaently genuine. I just did a search on Honeywell's web site and found following: Link At $10,000 each, I wonder if they sold any. Bill

Re: Kitchen computer, true or false? Message #3 Posted by Maximilian Hohmann on 10 Feb 2006, 9:34 a.m., in response to message #2 by Bill (Smithville, NJ) Hi! Quote: At $10,000 each, I wonder if they sold any. In your Honeywell link, it says: "Not surprisingly, no Kitchen Computers were sold." But if you do a Google or Wikipedia search, you will find endless references to it Greetings, Max

Re: Kitchen computer, true or false? Message #4 Posted by Tom (UK) on 10 Feb 2006, 10:04 a.m., in response to message #3 by Maximilian Hohmann I clicked on the 'read more' button and there are a few more details including being promoted as a kitchen computer to get free publicity. So not intended for a chopping board! or the kitchen! But not sure of the real intended market.

Re: Kitchen computer, true or false? Message #5 Posted by Eric Smith on 10 Feb 2006, 12:43 p.m., in response to message #1 by Tom (UK) It exists. There's one on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It's believed that only a single unit was actually manufactured.

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