The Honeywell Kitchen Computer, famously advertised with the quip, “If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute,” was a bold but impractical attempt to bring computing power into the home in 1969. Long before personal computers became a staple of modern life, the idea of owning a computer seemed baffling to most people. The proposed answer to this question was surprisingly simple: to store recipes. Marketed by Neiman Marcus as part of its annual collection of extravagant gift ideas, th...