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by Sharlin 29 days 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.

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