But look at what subsequent computers did with that same processor.
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This has me thinking of when I was very young and occasionally staying with my uncle on the weekend if he had to go into work at Southern New England Telephone he would bring me and I would would be at a teletype playing some game on the mainframe. Some text game I can’t remember, or a primitive version of lunar lander, or getting out the “special” roll of paper tape and printing out a snoopy.
Basically with anything made if there is any chance of it being used as a toy people will find a way to do it.
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It’s too bad Zilog couldn’t keep up with Intel, the Z80 was better than the 8080 but after that they were always behind when moving to 16 and 32 bit CPUs.
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If i cant stream on my casio digital watch then why did I even pledge?
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How about nixie tubes? Can I view MST3K on nixie tubes?
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One standard numeric Nixie tube? Not enough resolution. Gang enough of them together, though, and you’ve got a 1-2 bit dot matrix display.
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I’m thinking a whole wall of nixie tubes. So I can watch it in HD.
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Maybe if one were to shoehorn a Bluetooth transceiver into the watch …
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Might get a little warm. You’d probably need the rest of the room to house the air conditioning.
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This is starting to feel like a contemporary pitch meeting. 
“Imagine a pair of shoes … but Bluetooth!”
“Wait! Macaroni and cheese … but Bluetooth!”
“Yes! Bluetooth and open source! With NFTs! What’s not to love?”
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Are you saying that we should put Bluetooth on the ZX Spectrum?
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Yep, I proudly spent an otherwise gorgeous afternoon copying line after line of code from a magazine so I could play “Boa Alley” on mine whenever I wanted. After I loaded it up from the cassette tape drive, of course…
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I did the same. Enter magazine was fun for kids. Even copying the endless lines of code was fun.
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Cut my teeth on these:
Added graphics, sounds, gameplay enhancement, etc. How I learned to code. The Basics of the time were awful, limited, hard-to-read and yet it was still a better way to learn than the current “install 14 different stacks and use 6 different methodologies to create a compact 3,000 line tic-tac-toe game…”
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I still have that and the original volume stashed away in my library.
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As do I.
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Back to the original subject, do we have the proper code books to punch the appropriate cards for a punch card stack so I can access the Gizmoplex?
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My father was a systems guy in the ‘60s and ‘70s and until I moved out of the house every shopping list, phone message, etc. was written on the back of an unpunched card. No clue where they kept coming from … I think maybe the walls were insulated with them.
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Back then an office that used punch cards had them by the thousands. They were a little like sticky notes are today.
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