[Editors] authentic old computer

[Tom Pixton]

The sleek and ample tomato-and-ivory-toned fore-arm rest certainly 
was years ahead of it's ergonomic time...

At 2:43 PM -0500 12/2/04, Terry Hill wrote:
>Educate us and we'll buy even more stupid things!
>
>
>At 02:02 PM 12/2/2004 -0500, Debbie Levey wrote:
>>          This picture was taken at the Computer History Museum in 
>>southern California almost two years ago.  The sleek and 
>>streamlined orange kitchen computer was supposed to simplify the 
>>housewife's meal planning and cooking (even though the computer 
>>never learned to slice onions or boil eggs). Apparently Honeywell 
>>didn't sell a single unit, because they cost $10,000 in 1969 
>>dollars, had few functions, occupied a big chunk of kitchen space, 
>>and probably clashed with harvest gold and avocado green 
>>appliances. In addition, they were user-hostile and complex, while 
>>being marketed to women who generally had been shunted away from 
>>learning science and technology.
>>
>>Debbie
>>
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