Why people feel the need to overload terms like "datasette" I'll never know

▲ tadfisher 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think the current meaning has quite successfully replaced the original usage. Unless you typed this on a Commodore VIC-20, I suppose.

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voidUpdate 2 days ago | parent [-]

For you maybe, but I've never heard of this site, my only reference for "datasette" is the commodore 1560

	▲	alnwlsn 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Me too, and also I've never used one and it was discontinued before I was born

▲ simonw 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I learned to program on a C64 and one of the first programs I wrote myself was an incredible basic "database" (really just a program that could store and then return simple fielded data.)

I named my database management software Datasette as an homage to the C64. I also figured it would be a unique name that would be easy to search for...

... jokes on me, it turns out the retro computing C64 community is way more active than I expected and there are still plenty of people taking about Datasette tape drives online, 30+ years after they stopped being manufactured and sold.

▲ DANmode 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I can’t even parse what you’re complaining about. Could you elaborate?

▲ jayknight 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm assuming he's talking about the old hardware data cassette vs the software project of the save name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette vs

https://datasette.io/

	▲	vermilingua 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My favourite Datassette is the electronic artist. https://datassette.bandcamp.com/ https://musicforprogramming.net/
	▲	DANmode 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I’m assuming they’re just taking about the word dataset. Either way feels ridiculous, but the human in me wants to know which it is ^_^

▲ da_grift_shift 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

    10 PRINT "HAVE YOU TRIED READING IT AGAIN?"
    20 GOTO "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594798"

	▲	DANmode 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This comment was posted after my comment was… Just read for the first time. Thank you for the disambiguation for me - and the other readers. Please hold the snark, lol