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Trammell Hudson

@jgeorge although I think the calculating cheese slicer is the weirdest official product from IBM.

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arclight

@th @jgeorge I like that it's a special purpose mechanical computer. Program in $/angle of cheese, rotate, slice, and sell.

jgeorge

@th I saw a restoration of one on YT, and I agree its up there in its weirdness. But I feel the ART still wins out because although both products tell you what they DO ("I calculate cheese slices" "I randomly make noise") at least you can tell WHY the Calculating Cheese Slicer does what it does. Nobody so far seems to have any idea why the ART exists or what problem it was made to solve. :)

Its less annoying with the pitch of the beep potted down like half an octave though. :)

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