The Z80 Computer Has A Name!

Due to my careless mistake, I uploaded a duplicate of the first update as the second. This is the real video.
This video is not very exciting and the only takeaway here is the name is Hanker Education Computer, or HEC.
This is the second video in the Z80 Big Update series where I explain the Name for the computer; HEC, which stands for Hanker Education Computer.

[@esra_erimez]

Hanker Educational Computer is brilliant!!!

[@ulfurk]

It took some manipulation of the space bar to read the story about "hanker", I like both versions of the story.

[@jimcabezola3051]

Calling it a "Hacker Educational Computer" might also be BETTER than "Hanker Educational Computer". "Hacker" tells everyone exactly what it is and what's for. In the UK and Australia, "hanker" sounds like "wanker". As you know "wanker" is a humorous but naughty word in some parts of the English-speaking world. "Wanker" rhymes with "hanker" and may make people laugh at your wonderful computer. I've never heard the word "hanker". It also sounds a bit like "hanky" which is short for "handkerchief". I don't connect hackers with handkerchiefs, but..Who knows? I like your very innovative computers and look forward to hearing more about them. CHEERS!

[@fmorelatt0]

Yeah, the first thing that came into my mind was that dirty rime too.
Maybe Hackable Educational Computer would be a better fit, so people don't read the name have the impression that it is a platform designed to be a tool for cyber crime instead of a computer system for tinkering.

[@ericwazhung]

His text for the definition flashed-by far too fast for me to read or even scroll-back and pause...
But, it took me a while to recall the phrase "I have a hankering for..." (if I heard it correctly way back in my youth).
So I suppose To Hanker an Educational Computer could make sense!
I wonder if a suffix could be added to indicate e.g. "Hanker-satisfied" or "fulfilled"

[@laurensa.1803]

Hanker

[@sparthir]

I agree. This sounds too close to "wanker". Hacker sounds better.

[@landspide]

What the HEC, it's awesome!

[@SusanAmberBruce]

Good Education is Entertainment! Good Entertainment is an education.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

Why in the HEC did you name it HEC ? X-D
(It's a fine name, name it anything you like - it's your creation !)

[@pegtooth2006]

H.E.C.
Hanker
Exploration
Centre
because it will continue to explore bot forwards and back... it will have a mini self-encyclopedia to be backwards self diagnosticating and recognize older software

[@SianaGearz]

Did Chinese build something like Leningrad 48k computer? In Soviet Union people would exchange copied often hand drawn schematics and PCB artwork and EPROM chips and manuals in an underground hand to hand network. They would source ICs and parts like keyboard switches themselves from surplus stores or stole from factories what couldn't be bought, hand wire the keyboard matrix, hand build the enclosure. The computer was a clone of ZX Spectrum colour home computer from Sinclair Research UK, and it was possible to be built because East Germany cloned the Z80 processor. The other chip in ZX Spectrum was the Ferranti ULA which contained the rest of computer functionality but it couldn't be cloned, so it was replaced by a dozen odd low scale integration ICs like 4000 and 74000 series clone ICs. This was the only way to have a computer, you couldn't just buy, you had to craft it piece by piece.

[@andyhu9542]

Nope, no spectrum clone ever appeared. (A few of those may find their way through the northern norder, but no mass produced model or underground part market existed) The only computers were: some 8080-based computers that are little more than proof-of concept (we did clone the 8080), the PC (for schools, government/military and other institutions with loads of money), the CEC for the people (basically an Apple II clone replacing some descrete ICs with PLAs and adding Chinese character support) and later famiclones with custom 'study card' that generally took ver the entire market. One thing to remember is that the age of personal computing start at around 1977 and we kind of departed from Soviet-style economy at 1978. With the 'reform and open up' policy, it is not particularly forbidden to own or operate a foreign computer.