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highplainsdem

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8. I did some googling tonight and discovered that although I can't recall 1980s computer ads mentioning
Fri May 16, 2025, 01:40 AM
May 16

recipes - and neither can Skittles - some other people can.

Found a discussion of that here:

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-so-many-early-computer-ads-mention-usage-for-storing-recipes/778569

Using a home computer for recipes doesn't seem to have been a main selling point, though. Apparently it was a sexist addition to some ads that some clueless marketer thought would be necessary to appeal to women. I had nothing against cooking, but as a woman with a shelf of cookbooks, nothing would've appealed to me less than typing up recipes very carefully for computer files. And I think I would have had a pretty angry feminist reaction to a sexist ad for PCs. So I'm still sure I never saw any of those ads.

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