#honeywell kitchen computer

[commodorez]

What computer (of any era) is visually appealing but is mostly useless (when it was released)?

I mean, we'd be at this all day if I listed them all. Not to mention that aesthetics tend to be in the eye of the beholder. That said...

The Honeywell Kitchen Computer comes to mind. Sure, it's just a Honeywell 316 minicomputer in a custom case, which is a capable machine in its intended role. The 316 was perfectly serviceable, but it really should have peripherals and whatnot for the task at hand. You aren't going to be interacting with the front panel alone.

Meanwhile, what's this got going for it? This seems like a really un-ergonomic front panel. Where's the terminal? Where's the keyboard. You expect to enter and read back recipes in blinkenlights? How do you do finances on here?

I get it, it was a gimmick machine from the 1960s. But it was a pretty computer design, even if you really couldn't do anything practical with it. I enjoyed seeing it at the Computer History Museum, but I certainly wouldn't want to do anything with it.

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Your mom is a tech ninja

What makes someone “good at technology?” In part, it’s an understanding of the underlying technical principles and industry conventions — what a “power on” icon looks like, say. I have a lot of that. But there’s another component, one that’s often invisible to people like me: the extent to which your technology was designed to suit your needs.

I have a lot of that, too. I’m a 50 year old, middle-class, tech-industry adjacent professional man with an honorary PhD in computer science. Not only do tech designers think like and about me when they create new products — they often ask me what I think I need.

Several times per year, I’ll get on a call with product managers and researchers at both big and small tech companies to discuss some planned product. I am good at tech, but tech is also good at me. It doesn’t just meet me halfway — it bends over backwards to meet my needs.

Some years ago, I joined the advisory board for Simply Secure, a nonprofit that helps tech designers build strong security tools that are intended to be usable by non-technical people.

https://simplysecure.org/

In my first call with the org’s founder, Meredith Whittaker, I suggested a slogan for the products we helped with: “So easy, even your boss can use them.” You see, I’ve been an IT manager, and in that rule, I’ve had to institute security policies, like minimum standards for passwords, mandatory VPN usage, and other important (but often cumbersome) measures.

In these circumstances, I always did my best to explain to my co-workers that these measures were not me being high-handed or sadistic, loading them up with pointless busywork. I tried really hard — with pretty good success — to convey the rationale behind these measures and the risk I was trying to mitigate.

This isn’t just a matter of being respectful to the people I was working to protect, it was also key to that protection — when people don’t accept security measures, they circumvent them. As this amazing ethnography of security-bypassing medical professionals puts it, “You Want My Password or a Dead Patient?”

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/pubs/ksbk15-draft.pdf

It’s really important to get rank-and-file workers to understand why you’re asking them to endure the inconvenience of a security measure, but it’s far more important to get your boss to understand this. After all, even if your co-workers don’t buy in, you have some authority to mandate their cooperation, whereas your boss gets to override you.

Everyone who’s worked in security has had experience with this: you get a call from the CEO like, “Look, Poindexter, I don’t give a monkey’s asshole about the VPN or whatever. I need to download a presentation to raise the capital to pay your salary, and as soon as the kid in the lobby of this Comfort Inn is done Reddit shitposting on the shared lobby iMac, I need to download that file to this USB stick I found in the parking lot of an Arby’s and transfer it to my laptop. Make it happen!”

This is why I suggested “So easy your boss can use it,” as a replacement for the odious “So easy your mom can use it.” Bosses have the social clout to force the universe to rearrange itself to your comfort.

Moms, not so much.

Tech designers are notoriously indifferent to the needs of moms — and other marginalized users — when they plan their products. The emblem of this was the Honeywell Kitchen Computer, a $10,600 recipe-organzing database system the size of a kitchen counter, offered for sale in the 1969 Nieman-Marcus Christmas catalog:

https://www.wired.com/2012/11/kitchen-computer/

The men who designed this computer didn’t ask their wives — whose nightly dinner-cooking duties they set out to automate — whether they needed a $10,000, 100lb recipe organizer that you queried by punched paper tape. Not one unit sold.

Everything your mom does with a computer is twice as hard as the things that I do with a computer. Even if your mom gets more consideration from product designers today than she did in 1969, I’m getting more consideration. When I use a computer, I’m playing the game of life on the lowest difficulty setting:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/05/18/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-ten-years-on/

But as easy as things are for me, they’re even easier for your boss, who doesn’t just play on the lowest setting — your boss gets to play in God Mode. They get highest-level access to company systems and they get to ignore the security policies their underlings must obey.

Hence IFL Science’s study of CEO passwords for Nordpass, which found that the median CEO uses a password that is “startlingly dumb,” in the phraseology of the headline for PC Gamer’s article on the study, by Katie Wickens:

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-passwords-most-used-by-ceos-are-startlingly-dumb/

The study analyzed 290 million data-breaches and clustered the leaked passwords by job title, finding that the most popular passwords for the highest-ranking employees were typical of the worst password choices: “123456,” “picture1,” “password,” and names like “Tiffany,” as well as mythological animals like “Dragon.”

These passwords aren’t worse than the median breached password, but they should be better. With great power comes great responsibility, after all. C-Suite Impersonations are extremely dangerous to companies — forged emails from top execs have led to millions of losses at a swoop, when the impersonator orders an underling to transfer millions to pay a bogus invoice.

https://www.batesgroup.com/publications/joic-02-2017-0001.pdf

It’s a safe bet that the IT managers who work for these execs know about the risk of C-Suite account takeovers, and it’s a sure bet that the execs who chose these bad passwords had heard advice about choosing strong passwords. But unlike your mom, your boss gets to overrule IT policies.

Passwords suck and they’re hard to do well. You (and your mom, and your boss) should be using a password manager and using a different, strong, randomly generated password for every service.

https://www.eff.org/dice

You should also turn on two-factor authentication for every service, using either a hardware token or a standalone 2FA app (not SMS!):

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-enable-two-factor-authentication

Meanwhile, let’s normalize saying, “So easy my boss can use it” and banish “so easy my mom can use it” to the scrapheap of history.

[Image ID: The 1969 Nieman-Marcus Christmas Catalog listing for the Honeywell Kitchen Computer. The ad copy reads, 'If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute. Her souffles are supreme, her meal planning a challenge? She's what the Honeywell people had in mind when they devised our Kitchen Computer. She'll learn to program it with a cross-reference to her favorite recipes by N-M's own Helen Corbitt. Then by simply pushing a few buttons obtain a complete menu organized around the entree. And if she pales at reckoning her lunch tab, she can program it to balance the family checkbook. 84A 10,600.00 complete with two week programming course 84B Fed with Corbitt data: the original Helen Corbitt cook-book with over 1,000 recipes 5.00 (.75) 84C Her Potluck, 375 of our famed Zodiac restaurant's best kept secret recipes 3.95 (.75) Epicure 84D Her tabard apron. one-size, ours alone by Garden House in multi-pastel provincial cotton 28.00 (.90) Trophy Room.]

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Global Smart Home Market Growth, Trends, and Report

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A smart home is the integration of technology and services via a network to improve the quality of life. The technology enables the user to minimise workload and do other things. Smart Homes provide consumers with pleasant living, energy management features, security, and benefits for the disabled. Smart homes have Internet-connected gadgets that regulate, automate, and optimise operations like temperature, lighting, security, and entertainment. A computer, phone, tablet, or a separate system can operate, monitor, and access these devices remotely. Smart technologies for linking gadgets and accessories have enabled autonomous control of building conditions.

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Drivers: The rapid adoption of advanced technologies such as AI, IoT, blockchain, machine learning, and others is having a significant impact on market growth. The adoption of IoTs in both developing and developed countries has boosted the smart homes market. The ability of technology to enable device communication has benefited in minimising energy waste.

Growing worries about public convenience, safety, and security are another major factor driving the global market for smart homes. The market for connected safety and security systems and appliances with remote monitoring capabilities is growing. Additionally, users can use their smartphones or tablets to remotely operate and monitor office equipment as well as household appliances thanks to connected gadgets.

Restraints: However, the expensive cost of switching for existing smart device consumers, as well as difficulties with device malfunctioning and breaches in security and privacy, are major restrictions on market expansion.

Impact of Covid-19

In all the major end verticals, the new coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on and disrupted supply chain hubs, including China and the European countries. The US is most adversely impacted in the manufacturing sector, while China has seen a decrease in production capacity of over 14% and a decline in shipments of electronic components around the world of almost 40%.

One of the sectors that has been badly damaged by the COVID-19 epidemic is manufacturing, which accounts for roughly 17% of global GDP. The pandemic's epicentre is China, which is also the location of the majority of the raw material suppliers who supply materials and parts to numerous industrial facilities around the world. These manufacturing facilities' output has been constrained by the worldwide lockdown, which has disrupted the whole supply chain.

Segmentation By Component: Smart Home Market is classified on the basis of Component into Hardware, Services, and Smart Appliances.

Segmentation By Application: Smart Home Market is classified on the basis of Application into Security & Surveillance, Lighting, Entertainment, Energy Management, HVAC, Smart Kitchen, and Home Fitness & Wellness.

Segmentation By Region: Smart Home Market is classified on the basis of Region into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa. In 2020, North America had the greatest market share (36.55% of the worldwide market). One of the factors driving the market is the growing number of government efforts to support energy-efficient building, which provide benefits such as lower lifetime costs, improved energy savings, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Competitive Landscape: The key players of Smart Home Market are Honeywell International (US), Johnson Controls (Ireland), Siemens AG (Germany), Schneider Electric (France), UTC (US), Google LLC (US), Amazon (US), Apple Inc.(US), ADT Inc.(US), Assa Abloy (Sweden), Dahua Technology (China), ABB Ltd (Switzerland), Robert Bosch (Germany), Axis Communication (Sweden), Samsung Electronics (South Korea), and Panasonic Corporation (Japan).

Industrial Development

In order to integrate the new Matter connectivity standard across its connected home & buildings portfolio, Schneider Electric is getting ready to do so. Lighting, speakers, security systems, locks, routers, and HVAC controls are just a few of the smart home and building solutions that Matter, the new open-source, uniform connectivity protocol, may be adapted to. Matter is supported by important ecosystem suppliers and is created with IP, the fundamental network technology of the internet. Native cloud connectivity, improved cyber security, and device compatibility with matter-branded items will be advantageous to buyers, producers, product designers, and developers.

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Market Taxonomy

By Component

Hardware

Services

Smart Appliances

By Application

Security & Surveillance

Lighting

Entertainment

Energy Management

HVAC

Smart Kitchen

Home Fitness & Wellness

By Region

North America

Europe

Asia Pacific

Latin America

Middle East & Africa

Key Questions Addressed by the Report

What are the Key Opportunities in Smart Home Market?

What will be the growth rate from 2020 to 2027?

Which segment/region will have highest growth?

What are the factors that will impact/drive the Market?

What is the competitive Landscape in the Industry?

What is the role of key players in the value chain?

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Honeywell kitchen computer, 1969

[quickshipfire]

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If you’ve got an older router that can only handle one signal type, like your old desktop computers, or if you have a newer device with a different signal type, like your smartphone or tablet, the Honeywell 2.4 GHz will also work just as well for you as any of our more than 200 other compatible routers on this list. Because we understand that not everyone knows what their specific needs are! Here are our top recommendations for the best 2.4 GHz router.

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Honeywell Kitchen Computer 1960s: The $70,000 Machine That Was Able To Store Only A Few Recipes

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A small semi-furnished cabin. I have UC on my computer. All CC is included, but you’ll  need Buggy’s kitchen basic counter and Honeywell’s Bespoke build set.

There are some new recolors included.

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coffee shop, kiosk, toilets, photo booth, Eclectic and Enigmatic Energizer (just because I had no idea how to interpret the trap door)

barber shop

clothes shop

office (computers, bookshelves, Execuputter [golf], SensoTwitch Lie Finder, "I Object" Litigator Podium), toilets

night club (DJ booth, bar), toilets

same as above, the night club has a high ceiling

gym, bathrooms, vending machines

restaurant (indoor tables), toilet

restaurant (tables on the balcony, kitchen)

nothing here, just the elevator

observation deck (it has a glass floor, only for the brave ones)

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Custom Content Included:

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Barely There Glass Door by Shakeshaft

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At least one of my lots has been known to cause the Super Duper Hug Bug.

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African WhatsApp Modders are the Masters of Worldwide Adversarial Interoperability

Since the earliest days of consumer computing, computer users have asserted their right to have a say in how their tools worked: whether it was Gopher delivering easy new ways to access services that had originally been designed for power users who could memorize obscure addresses and arcane commands; or toolkits like Hypercard and Visual Basic, which let everyday people automate their work; or Scratch, which lets kids design games and apps that come from their imaginations, rather than an app store.

This ability to adapt your tools is especially urgent when those tools are designed by people who live very different lives from your own. The disability rights movement's rallying cry of "Nothing about us without us," crystallizes generations of discontent with the high-handed attitude of distant “experts” who built systems and tools without truly working together with those who use and are affected by them. Technologists are especially notorious for this high-handedness: —like the Honeywell 316, a $10,600 "kitchen computer" for storing recipes that was offered for sale in the 1969 Nieman Marcus catalog. It was designed for women by men, but no women wanted or needed a kitchen computer, and they didn't sell a single one. Despite this ghastly failure, early computer vendors continued to market their wares to women by advertising the ability to store and retrieve recipes.

Even when a tool is useful, its imperfections can chafe and bind users who need to do things the designers didn't imagine or didn't approve of. Scratch a modder or a jailbreaker and you'll often find someone who just wanted the tool that they depend on to do what they need it to do. Since the first neolithic toolmaker chipped away at a stone axe to make it fit her hand, tool-users have also been tool-makers.

The continent of Africa is a vast, complex place, with 54 countries and 1.2 billion residents who themselves live incredibly varied lives in incredibly varied lands. But as different as the lives of Africans are from one another, they are even more different from the lives of the Facebook engineers who oversee WhatsApp, which is the most popular app in much of Africa (in Zimbabwe, half of the data consumption in 2017 was via WhatsApp!).

And despite this incredible popularity, software developers outside America understand that WhatsApp could easily be made better for the users they serve, whose lives and circumstances are much more like their own then they are like the lives of Facebook developers in Menlo Park. These developers have produced a whole bushel of WhatsApp variants, reverse-engineering the official Facebook app and tweaking its features to adapt it for local conditions.

Crucially, these new apps can still interoperate with the official WhatsApp, so users need not choose between using a better WhatsApp and using a WhatsApp that lets them send and receive messages with their friends.

That’s one reason that, as successful as WhatsApp has been in Africa, the made-in-Africa WhatsApp mods are more successful still. The most popular mod, GB WhatsApp, has more active users than Facebook itself! GB WhatsApp allows its users to manage multiple accounts from a single device, to send larger file attachments, to form larger groups, and to mask when they're using the app so that other users can't see that they're active. GB WhatsApp's origins are somewhat mysterious, but it appears that it was first created in Syria at the height of the conflict there, further highlighting how different the lives of users can be from the people who make the tools they depend upon.

These WhatsApp mods are in no way sanctioned by Facebook—indeed, the company actively tracks down and bars users caught using mods (WhatsApp modders advise their users to create burner accounts to use with the mods, which they can simply replace with new burners if they get banned).

WhatsApp mods descend from a reverse-engineering project called libwhatsapp, in which a community of developers created a compatible code-library that makes creating your own WhatsApp mod relatively simple. Libwhatsapp is too widespread for Facebook to censor, but the official GB WhatsApp site fell to legal threats from Facebook in August 2018. Today, users download many "GB WhatsApp" applications from websites and friends, looking for ones that seem reliable and spyware-free. The reliability vacuum left behind by Facebook's legal actions has led to a surge in peer-to-peer sideloading, whereby one friend will directly transmit an app to another – substituting personal trust for trust in websites, stores, or companies. Peer to peer distribution also has the advantage of sidestepping slow, unreliable and expensive mobile data networks. GB WhatsApp continues to see regular updates, though no one is sure who is maintaining the app.

The story of WhatsApp mods is a beautiful illustration of the value of adversarial interoperability: making something new out of an existing product or service, without asking for permission, even when the company whose products you're modifying would really rather you not. Through adversarial interoperability, developers who serve distinct populations with distinct needs can simply make the tools that serve them best, without having to grovel for permission from a giant corporation half a world away. They can put the need of their users—and not the distant corporation's shareholders—first.

Until recently, this kind of adaptation was the norm. Indeed, one of the most famous made-in-Africa technologies is the Ubuntu operating system, envisaged in South Africa and used in rural African schoolhouses far from reliable Internet access or expert technicians who could untangle thorny problems with hardware drivers or application software.

Facebook got its start by taking advantage of adversarial interoperability, creating tools that let its users transfer their address books from established rivals to Facebook when it was a new upstart; making tools to let users of existing social networks retrieve their waiting messages from those services to be read on Facebook; letting users embed previews of pages from existing websites within Facebook's walled garden. The Web was designed to be adaptable in this way: its building blocks, such as the ubiquitous URL, were designed to allow this kind of mixing-and-matching of data, services and interface elements from multiple sources, to create new ones that suited their users better.

Some of adversarial interoperability's staunchest opponents built their fortunes on the practice. For example, John Deere perfected its tractors by sending engineers into the field to see how farmers had modified them, bringing those farmers inventions' back to HQ, patenting them, and incorporating them into future models. Today, John Deere claims that reconfiguring your tractor is a copyright violation, and that anyone who helps farmers do so is committing a felony.

Poor nations have always relied on their ability to modify imports from rich colonial powers to suit their local needs. That's why early American law did not recognize British patents while the nation was industrializing.

African WhatsApp modders are only doing what inventors have always done. The difference is that—unlike in the early days of American independence—African nations are not free to set their own policies on copyright and patent. Instead, they must bow to pressure from the US and other more powerful nations to accept patent and copyright restrictions, whether or not those restrictions makes sense for Africans. As a result, while WhatsApp modders can operate in the shadows, far away from Silicon Valley, they can't export their improved technology to the wealthy world. The laws that prevent adversarial interoperability thus hurt users around the world, and simultaneously enforce a kind of digital colonialism; everyone who isn't lucky enough to work for a tech giant must take what they're given, regardless of whether it suits their local circumstances.

Adversarial interoperability isn't merely a way for the tech industry to remain competitive: it's the key to technological self-determination, the right of every human being to decide which technologies they use, and how.

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WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT

Industrial equipment refers to any machine that is used in the process or is important for the proper functioning and operation of the large manufacturing units and industries. Machinery involved can be mechanical, electric or electronic. Equipment can be specific or multipurpose adjustable equipment. 

Here there are few refrigeration and air conditioning equipment's. 

BTU (British thermal units) meters: 

BTU (British thermal units) meters also known as energy meters measure thermal energy of liquid flow in British thermal units (BTU). BTU meters are used to bill users for energy usage in chilled water systems for both commercial and industrial buildings. BTU energy meter must be durable, reliable, easy installation and most importantly must be accurate for measuring thermal energy usage in water-based systems. BTU meters comprise of calibrated electromagnetic flowmeter, pair of temperature sensors and flow transmitter to calculate net heat consumption. Information such as instantaneous temperature, flow rate, energy consumption is provided by BTU meters.  

BTU meters are also helpful for energy saving measures and efficiency testing which directly impacts revenue. BTU meters are often integrated in Air handling Units, chilled water, HVAC applications. It is also used in centralized air conditioning systems for industrial and commercial buildings.   

Fractional-horsepower Motor (FHP) 

A fractional-horsepower motor (FHP) is an electric motor that produces less than one horsepower with an output rating of 746 watts or less. Fractional horsepower motors are available as AC, DC, Brushless, and Universal styles ranging from 1/100 to 2-1/2 HP depending on the style of motor.  

Fractional fractional-horsepower motors are found in the following types:

Stepper Motor 

Servo Motor 

Shaded-Pole Motor 

Reluctance Motor 

Synchronous Fractional Horsepower Motor 

Split Phase 

Series Motor 

Brush Series Motors 

Brushless Motor 

Permanent Split Capacitor 

While designing a fractional horsepower motor, torque and speed are two critical factors to be considered. Bearings are an essential part of electric motors that help in reducing friction and wear. Bearings can be Ball bearings or cylindrical roller bearings.  

Due to high precision Fractional Horsepower Motors are used in robotics. Auto motives hold the maximum usage. Fractional Horsepower Motors are used as: 

Fan Motor 

Computer Motors 

Air Conditioner Motors 

Windshield Wiper Motor 

Power Seat Motors 

Robotics Motors 

The Screw Compressor:  

The compressor compresses the refrigerant which is an essential part of the refrigeration cycle. A screw compressor performs this function through a couple of inter-meshing screws. The capacity of the compressor determines the capacity of the refrigeration or air conditioning 

There are two types of screw compressors.  

Single-Screw Compressor 

Twin-Screw Compressor 

Parts of screw compressor includes 

The Rotors  

The Suction Valve 

The Prime Mover 

Oil Section 

Other Parts (housing unit, belts, gears, plungers) 

Benefits of screw compressor over other compressors includes: 

Higher output.  

Easy maintenance 

Minimal vibration and noise.  

Reduced refrigerant loss. 

Screw compressors are used in the following industries:  

Construction and civil engineering 

Machinery  

Pulp and paper industry 

Electronic  

Automobile industry 

Theme parks and recreation 

Wotek is a well-known brand for Industrial equipment supplier for laundry, Kitchen, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. We are top brand distributors since 1982. We provide a complete value-chain of Project Engineering- Design, Supply, Installation and Maintenance Services. 

We are the leading distributor and supplier of Industrial Refrigeration and air conditioning equipment in UAE. Wotek is a supplier of famous brands: 

Honeywell (BTU Meters)  

Sisme – Fractional HP Motors. 

Fusheng – Screw Compressors for A.C. & Ref. And Many More 

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