Recently The Honeywell Kitchen Computer (51 points, 6 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42296485

Older When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) (50 points, 2022, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439

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/

"If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute."

Oh my goodness it's a satirical ad. I don't know the proper marketing term for it, but I've seen these in magazines before plenty of times.

It's pretty funny that some people took this seriously.

Tablets and smartphones are great kitchen computers, as long as you remember to clean and disinfect them before any food preparation.

Is there anything in Corning's marketing about using smart thingies as cutting boards?

I know that it was a joke but I still poked around to see if I could find any DDP-116 recipe software because the DDP-116 (H316) is available in simh.

Didn’t find any.

So cutting edge you wouldn't even need a kitchen knife

> built-in cutting board

Hey, that's a great spot to place my Macbook.

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