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NET RESULTS:The Kitchen Computer has finally come to pass, but not as the makers intended, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON

IN THE Computer History Museum at Mountain View, California, I have quite a few favourites among the many elegant old bits of disused hardware. The “Johnniac” mainframe (named for computing pioneer John von Neumann) with its glass panelled case and Cadillac-style nameplate; the mammoth Cray supercomputer with its hanging, orderly mats of colourful wiring; Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s own Apple 1 in a wooden case, signed, simply, “Woz” in thick black marker pen.