lucy24 - 9:19 pm on May 6, 2011 (gmt 0)

Ooh, it's the ancestor of the microfridge. (Microwave oven on top, small vertical refrigerator below, twice the capacity of cubical ones everyone rented in my day.) Some colleges include these as part of dorm-room furnishings in the (futile) hope that this will prevent occupants from blowing out the buildings' electrical systems with food-preparation gadgets that no grownup ever dreamed existed, at a minimum of 1500W each.