Give your Commodore 64 new life with an SD card reader
Dust off your old Commodore 64, and you could be the coolest kid on the block by plugging SD cards into it instead of floppies.
Steve Hanov makes a living working on
Rhymebrain.com,
www.websequencediagrams.com,
and Zwibbler.com. He lives in
Waterloo, Canada.
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Dust off your old Commodore 64, and you could be the coolest kid on the block by plugging SD cards into it instead of floppies.
Creating portable binaries on Linux
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