Just adding a thought here: Truth is a couple of Mhz, reasonable RAM and basic I/O can do a whole lot! That is exactly what these little guys did, in addition

Just adding a thought here: Truth is a couple of Mhz, reasonable RAM and basic I/O can do a whole lot! That is exactly what these little guys did, in addition to being portable, which I wrote a little about above. Most of the value is still there too. Often we have an app, but we could also have more people writing little programs on their phones. Lots of resistance to that, and I understand why, but... This topic got me to thinking about Hypercard for mobile. Package up all the hard bits, give people a few robust options and a place to input the few lines of code that matter and suddenly we have all the value of those little devices and in a way more powerful form.