First Bit of January

It is the first week of January and the winter appears to be returning to normal, the temperature is dropping down close to 0°c and there is a cold chill in the air. We recently had a new thermostat installed in our home. The Goldilocks temperature for us is 22°c, we consider 22 °c to be a comfortable temperature. All parts of our heating system conspire to keep the temperature at 22°C. A boiler gets a signal from the thermostat when it drops below 22, then it burns gas and heats up water and a pump pushes the hot water around our home until the thermostat reaches 22°c, then it stops and waits. 

I was thinking machines are driven by purpose, they don't possess malice or cunning, they're not sly or evil like people. 

Then I was thinking about the ZX81 and the ZX spectrum, the cheap micro computers that were popular in Britain during the '80s. They used cassette tapes that played tones to encode data through  an audio socket. I was thinking that those computers didn't care where the sound was coming from, I could have a sound file of the game codes on my smart phone and play it to the computer through the audio jack and it would work the same. It is even possible for a radio station to play the sound of the game codes and it would still load the software if it was connected to the radio with and audio cable. 

The older ZX81 computer was very simple, very small memory, black and white screen with no sound and people tried to push the limits of the hardware to see how far they can go. Someone managed to make a first person dungeon game on there called monster maze, wow. This is a video I watched on YouTube:  Video about ZX81 games.