Tablets and smartphones are great kitchen computers, as long as you remember to clean and disinfect them before any food preparation.
nottorp•4h ago
Is there anything in Corning's marketing about using smart thingies as cutting boards?
glitchc•4h ago
> built-in cutting board
Hey, that's a great spot to place my Macbook.
dylan604•4h ago
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•1h ago
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•3h ago
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.
gnabgib•2d ago
Older When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) (50 points, 2022, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439