Updated 6 January 2021
The byline on this advertisement reads, "If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute.&. We don't know what the advertizers were thinking when they came up with this advertisement. The Honeywell 316 machine looks so beautiful and futuristic and is totally out of place in a brown-on-brown kitchen.
The Honeywell 316 can in two significant form factors. The most common form factor is the standard box form of its time, and then the beauty of the ultra-modern desk version. We have trawled throughmany computer museum and hobby sites and couldn't find much information on this specific version of the Honeywell 316. We recommend looking at this hilarious write up...
I do not know Valerie Aurora personally but I found this wonderful article. Valerie has gone back in time when husbands could buy the Honeywell Kitchen Computer from the latest Nieman Marcus catalog. The kicthen computer is both functional and stylish and perfect for impressing your wife on her birthday.