The Honeywell Kitchen Computer
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The Honeywell Kitchen Computer
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#3Related. Others?
When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439 - April 2022 (60 comments)
Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30421628 - Feb 2022 (4 comments)
The oldest problem in computing - Recipes - How do you solve it? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544666 - April 2009 (10 comments)
The $62,550 machine no one bought - Honeywell's Kitchen Computer remembered - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378603 - Nov 2008 (3 comments)
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#4Related. Others? When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439 - April 2022 (60 comments) Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30421628 - Feb 2022 (4 comments) The oldest problem in computing - Recipes - How do you solve it? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544666 - April 2009 (10 comments) The $62,550 machine no one bought -…
Honeywell 316 Kitchen Computer (5 points, 3 years ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30421628
When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021) (50 points, 3 years ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31108439
The oldest problem in computing - Recipes - How do you solve it? (6 points, 16 years ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544666
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#5Any ideas on what the font is in the 3rd image? I like it.
‘MENU SELECTION BY HONEYWELL KITCHEN COMPUTER’
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#6… and then they pivoted to B2B ;)
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#7Any ideas on what the font is in the 3rd image? I like it. ‘MENU SELECTION BY HONEYWELL KITCHEN COMPUTER’
If you Google "classic computer font that's on cheques", you'll find it as the first result.
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#8I feel like this was probably their idea of an Onion article style humour at the time although it's obviously patronizing when looked at today.
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#9Any ideas on what the font is in the 3rd image? I like it. ‘MENU SELECTION BY HONEYWELL KITCHEN COMPUTER’
If you Google "classic computer font that's on cheques", you'll find it as the first result.
The amusing thing is that there never was such a computer-readable text font.
The original Magnetic Ink Character Recognition digits still seen on paper checks are from a set that only has numbers and some delimiters. There are no letters in MICR. Anything that looks like that font with letters is a dated attempt to look futuristic.
MICR digits are really a kind of bar code. They were originally read by a one-track magnetic head.[1] The waveform out represents only how much ink is present. But it doesn't matter to the magnetic reader where the ink is placed vertically within the read track. That's why the digit forms are so weird, with those varying-width lines.
Bank of America had the first MICR readers and check sorters custom built. This was so successful that it powered BofA to become the biggest bank in the world at the time.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Recording_Machine,_...
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#10While many orders of magnitude more performant it is funny when my GPU pulls the same amount of power as that huge computer