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The Useful Personal Computer

The Useful Personal Computer

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·November 2, 2025
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MarkLowenstein

Reliving the days when the possibilities were endless and we weren't already captured by an entrenched computing path is important. 50 years ago, every marketer intuited that a home computer would be used for storing recipes. It never happened. Why not? (Reasons aren't hard to come up with, but the process of doing so draws our imagination toward what computer interfaces could have been and should still be.)

spankibalt

> "[...] every marketer intuited that a home computer would be used for storing recipes. It never happened."

Storing recipes "never happened"? Rubbish! Even famous cook Casey Ryback used his Apple Newton to store recipes, as evidenced in the 1995 documentary Under Siege 2 [1].

1. [https://starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=23]