Offered by Neiman Marcus in their 1969 catalog, the computer was actually a Honeywell 316 under the hood, but it was marketed as an extravagant gift by the brand. Advertised as a way to store recipes and weighing in at 100 pounds, it set you back $10,000 in 1969. Typical of the era, it included a patronizing image of women, who would’ve had to take a two-week course in programming the machine to store those recipes. Although none of these were actually sold it was the first time a computer was offered as a consumer product.
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