Honeywell 316 Home Computer (picture from Wikipedia)
There’s an interesting short article in Wired:
In 1969, the Neiman Marcus catalog offered the first home PC, a stylish stand-up model called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer, priced at $10,600. The picture shows an aproned housewife caressing the machine, with this tag line: “If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute… …Despite countless brainstorming sessions and meetings on the subject, the only application the Honeywell team could think of for a home computer (aside from the perennial checkbook balancing) was recipe card management. So the Kitchen Computer was aimed at housewives and featured integrated counter space…”
We’ve come a long way since then, and nowadays the lucky housewife no longer has to program her kitchen computer using toggle switches either!
