Friday, November 23, 2012

Honeywell: The Originator Of The Kitchen Computer, Copied iPad

iPad app with support provided by the Apple App Store has become the mandatory in every part of your home. Not only to assist the simple computing, the iPad also functions as a media player, ebook reader, mini home entertainment, even the grip required for you who like to cook in the kitchen.

How not, the iPad is able to present the magazine contains recipes that you can try in the kitchen complete with tutorials via video, the application also comes with updated cooking recipes and cooking tips. With the iPad and application support, cooking becomes easier! However, whether or not the iPad is the first device that raises the idea of ​​a digital assistant for your kitchen?

It seems not. In 1969 a similar idea iPad has emerged from Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is a tool called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer. As the name suggests, this tool was created for the 'computerized Why the' kitchen so the cook can be faster and fun.

By simply pressing a few buttons on the Honeywell Kitchen Computer users will be able to get 5 types of food. And all that can be done in a very short time! With this tool, users no longer have a mistake while cooking, such as burns or too salty dishes.

As you can see in the picture, this cooking machine design has orange-red, white and black. It weighs about 45 kg and the price... $10,000! Honeywell Kitchen Computer and readers need teletype paper to perform all of its functions, and certainly an adept use.

Well, even if they've exhibited in catalog sales but the Neiman Marcus never sell this unique machine. Yes, it looks like Honeywell Kitchen Computer is only a dream machine concept to pamper mothers, can be seen from a catalog that includes a photograph of a middle housewife operate Honeywell Kitchen Computer in the kitchen ...

But that does not mean Neiman Marcus never made this machine. In fact, Honeywell Kitchen Computer ever made one. Made with a base 16 made Honeywell mini-computer, the machine did not describe the present design of the computer and more like a machine in the imagination like sciece fiction films. Although not commercially available but highly desirable Honeywell programmer because in the 70s a lot of engineers who need a machine that is capable of teletype paper tape reader with features to type the code and then translate the code in a series of holes and spaces in the paper which can then be read by paper reader. In those days, paper tape became a very important part for storing data, like a floppy disk. And of course Honeywell is not able to change the vegetables and spices into a bowl of salad :D

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