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

0x0
Shame the article is absolutely littered with AI-isms.
sys_64738
Commodore is the company they constantly try to delete from computing history.
Sharlin
> 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
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
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
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