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Re: Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

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Post by themadturk » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 10:45 PM UTC

Sharlin wrote: post #8

> You remember that the disk drive was device 8 Well look at the rich guy here with a disk drive . --- 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.

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).

Re: Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

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Post by JdeBP » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 12:29 PM UTC

Sharlin wrote: post #8

> You remember that the disk drive was device 8 Well look at the rich guy here with a disk drive . --- 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.

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

Re: Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

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Post by taskforcegemini » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 7:48 AM UTC

Sharlin wrote: post #8

> You remember that the disk drive was device 8 Well look at the rich guy here with a disk drive . --- 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.

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