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Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

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72 points by hans_castorp a month ago · 12 comments

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Sharlin a month ago

> You remember that the disk drive was device 8

Well look at the rich guy here with a disk drive.

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TBH, my first computer, a second-hand C64, did come with a disk drive (and a monitor!!), but that was in the early 90s, several years after the heyday of the sixty-four.

  • themadturk a month ago

    I ended up with two disk drives, and a RAM expansion, so I was able to run GEOS. But it took a good while to build up to that (I was a married, childless adult when I used the C=64, if that's any comfort).

  • JdeBP a month ago

    It's already C64 BASIC inside an SQL server. Don't give them ideas of emulating a cassette tape, with Datasette for PostgreSQL, too! (-:

  • taskforcegemini a month ago

    ah, that's what the ",8" was for. As a little kid I was told what to type in without ever understanding. in my defense, it was before I could read

rgacote a month ago

Sometimes you simply ignore asking why and sit in awe of the what of it all. Impressive and nostalgic.

RedNifre a month ago

Neat! If you don't have a PostgreSQL DB ready, you can also compile Commodore 64 Basic for you HP 15-C calculator instead: https://forum.swissmicros.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2194&p=11...

wewewedxfgdf a month ago

"What would happen if developers could create any software that does pretty much anything with little to no effort?"

This question is being answered all over the Internet every day and I love it.

sys_64738 a month ago

Commodore is the company they constantly try to delete from computing history.

  • zulux a month ago

    It's been interesting to see how the next generations just don't care. If you had an Atari, CoCo, Ti... or nothing, that information was important back then.

kmmbvnr_ a month ago

Does it run Oregon trail?

0x0 a month ago

Shame the article is absolutely littered with AI-isms.

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