alt.hn

7/3/2026 at 9:08:14 AM

Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

 https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-commodore-64-basic.html

by hans_castorp

7/3/2026 at 3:05:54 PM

> 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.

by Sharlin

7/4/2026 at 12:29:30 PM

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

by JdeBP

7/3/2026 at 10:45:32 PM

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).

by themadturk

7/3/2026 at 11:40:06 AM

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

by rgacote

7/3/2026 at 11:40:50 AM

"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.

by wewewedxfgdf

7/3/2026 at 12:13:10 PM

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

by sys_64738

7/3/2026 at 12:38:19 PM

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.

by zulux

7/3/2026 at 3:38:54 PM

Does it run Oregon trail?

by kmmbvnr_

7/3/2026 at 5:54:54 PM

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by guender

7/3/2026 at 11:43:40 AM

Shame the article is absolutely littered with AI-isms.

by 0x0