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10 PRINT: a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program

Rob Beschizza
Oct 21, 2025
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10 PRINT

80s kids became coders with ease because 8-bit computers booted into a simple dev environment running BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough could run, and some were very long indeed. But the most famous on the Commodore 64 was just a single line of code. Here it is:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1…

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