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Frank Müller 🌻<p>Perhaps I should take some bigger examples of my private programming history. Those are often similar or better than my professional projects using these languages. And then AI should rate <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>style</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readability</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maintainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maintainability</span></a>, perhaps room for optimization without loosing these criteria. The languages here would be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>perl</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>java</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/smalltalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smalltalk</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/erlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erlang</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>golang</span></a>. Should be interesting. And beside the different languages I would expect a reflection of my personal experience.</p>
ne7<p>Lovely video from The Serial Port on getting PC based Impulse <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> software up and running in 2025 &lt;3 :) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaYAEtwE8Es" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=YaYAEtwE8E</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p><p><a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/scene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scene</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/demoscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demoscene</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/bbsscene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bbsscene</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/acid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acid</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/ansi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ansi</span></a></p>
BITNACHT<p>Heute gelernt: Obwohl beispielsweise im Smalltalk Buch von Strahringer und Kaufmann behauptet wird nil stünde „Not In List“, gilt als gesichert, dass die Angabe im bekannten Buch von Abelson und Sussman, es handele sich um eine Kontraktion von „nihil“ (lat. nichts), die korrekte Herleitung ist. <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scheme</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Smalltalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smalltalk</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Oberon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oberon</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pascal</span></a></p>
detektor.fm :dfm:<p>Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts machen die Mathematiker Blaise Pascal und Pierre de Fermat die Zukunft berechenbar, indem sie erstmals mit Wahrscheinlichkeiten rechnen. Ausschlaggebend ist ein abgebrochenes Glücksspiel.</p><p><a href="https://social.detektor.fm/tags/Fermat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fermat</span></a> <a href="https://social.detektor.fm/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pascal</span></a> <a href="https://social.detektor.fm/tags/SpektrumDerWissenschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpektrumDerWissenschaft</span></a> <a href="https://social.detektor.fm/tags/Wahrscheinlichkeitslehre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wahrscheinlichkeitslehre</span></a> <a href="https://social.detektor.fm/tags/Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie</span></a> <a href="https://social.detektor.fm/tags/GeschichtenAusDerMathematik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeschichtenAusDerMathematik</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://detektor.fm/wissen/geschichten-aus-der-mathematik-wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung?utm_campaign=share_on_mastodon&amp;utm_medium=mastodon&amp;utm_source=fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">detektor.fm/wissen/geschichten</span><span class="invisible">-aus-der-mathematik-wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung?utm_campaign=share_on_mastodon&amp;utm_medium=mastodon&amp;utm_source=fediverse</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2107494/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2107494/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Pedro Pascal spotted flying economy to film festival: Watch <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/affiliate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>affiliate</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/cannes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cannes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CannesFilmFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CannesFilmFestival</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/celebrities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>celebrities</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CelebritiesU0026EntertainmentNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CelebritiesU0026EntertainmentNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Entertainment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/festival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>festival</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/local" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>local</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LocalAffiliateArtsU0026Entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalAffiliateArtsU0026Entertainment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>network</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NetworkTrending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetworkTrending</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/neutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neutral</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Overall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Overall</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OverallNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OverallNeutral</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/pedro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pedro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PedroPascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PedroPascal</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trending</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/u0026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>u0026</span></a></p>
Begasus<p>Updated for Haiku 64bit: Lazarus 4.0.</p><p>Lazarus is a Rapid Application Development Tool for Free Pascal.</p><p><a href="https://www.lazarus-ide.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">lazarus-ide.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Install or update it with Haiku's application HaikuDepot or the Terminal command pkgman.</p><p>For this I created/updated a local script (partly based on how Fedora uses it):</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/Begasus/Lazarus_Haiku/src/branch/main/lazarusBuildFedora.sh" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/Begasus/Lazarus_H</span><span class="invisible">aiku/src/branch/main/lazarusBuildFedora.sh</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaikuOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/Lazarus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lazarus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/FPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/freepascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freepascal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/IDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IDE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/RAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RAD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a></p>
Lentävä Kalakukko<p>Turbo Pascal vs. Pedro Pascal.</p><p><a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pascal</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>In 1979 BYTE magazine published The BYTE Book of Pascal, an anthology of articles about the language, comparisons with other languages, and lots of source code of programs ranging from Pascal compilers to utilities and games.</p><p>A fascinating account of an era when Pascal was still relatively new and promising and programmers were discovering what it could do.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/the-byte-book-of-pascal/page/n11/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/the-byte-b</span><span class="invisible">ook-of-pascal/page/n11/mode/2up</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Mark Bessey<p>Oh look - it's a new blog post, an introduction to the USCD p-System Editor, *written on* the UCSD Pascal Editor:<br><a href="https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/29/ucsd-pascal-in-depth/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">markbessey.blog/2025/04/29/ucs</span><span class="invisible">d-pascal-in-depth/</span></a></p><p>Yes, this means that my <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/psystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psystem</span></a> utility can successfully copy files off of the emulator disk image, and convert them into Mac-formatted text, from the frankly bizarre format that's native to the text editor.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/appleii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>appleii</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a></p>
Regionales Retro-Rechenzentrum<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vixen.zone/@ry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ry</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kalleboo</span></a></span> Ooooh, Think Pascal.</p><p>Back in … 1989? a club colleague introduced me to the local uni’s computer lab, filled with Mac II. Base config, 13" color screen with 640x480 in 256 colors, with Hypercard and Think Pascal on it. And some word processor.</p><p>Coming from the Atari ST, the Mac II wasn’t much faster than what I had, and the GUI was theoretically similar.</p><p>But ThinkPascal felt sooo much more advanced due to the tight integration of its source level debugger into the IDE. On the ST, debuggers weren’t integrated yet into the UI, and were cumbersome to use.</p><p>So Think Pascals step-by-step debugger and variable inspection in windows were mind-blowing for me ("how to they do this in supervisor mode, and yet have full access to high-level OS/grafport/window calls?" -- little did I know how hacky System 6/7 were).</p><p>These memories.</p><p><a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/retroprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroprogramming</span></a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/mac68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac68k</span></a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/atarist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atarist</span></a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a></p>
Mark Bessey<p>I wrote a new blog post: <br>A blast from the past: The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility never quite realized.<br><a href="https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/14/a-blast-from-the-past/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">markbessey.blog/2025/04/14/a-b</span><span class="invisible">last-from-the-past/</span></a><br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Børge<p>I'd much rather take Pascal's carriage than Pascal's wager any time!</p><p>TIL that Pascal started the worlds first bus company (as far as this youtuber found that history has recorded, which might have many biases)</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsNEVRosKzM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=qsNEVRosKz</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/bus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bus</span></a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/PublicTransit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTransit</span></a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTransport</span></a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“The <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Delphi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Delphi</span></a> launch took place at the Miller Freeman Software Development Conference West in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanFrancisco</span></a> California, on Valentine’s Day, February 14th 1995 at 7PM just after <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PhilippeKahn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhilippeKahn</span></a>’s keynote “The Importance of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ObjectComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObjectComputing</span></a> – The Algorithmic Link”. Two editions of Delphi were announced: Delphi and Delphi Client/Server.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Borland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Borland</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pascal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RAD</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OO</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DavidIntersimone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidIntersimone</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://blog.davidi.com/2025/02/14/celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-delphi-version-1-0s-launch/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.davidi.com/2025/02/14/cel</span><span class="invisible">ebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-delphi-version-1-0s-launch/</span></a>&gt;</p>
S.Privicans<p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a> </p><p>Greeting, I'm Sam. Basically I created this account and now access it via <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a> because I live in the US and fear for our safety, security, and privacy from our own government now. It's a disgrace.</p><p>I'm into old computers (<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a>) from the late 70s and early 80s, mostly <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Sinclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sinclair</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AppleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppleII</span></a>, (gotta specify the 'ii' else I'll get a bunch of modern apple junk), <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Acorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acorn</span></a>, etc.</p><p>I know <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BASICv2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASICv2</span></a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/6510ASM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>6510ASM</span></a>, along with modern <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a>, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pascal</span></a>, etc. I've also wanted to relearn <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Prolog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prolog</span></a> (CP3...😜 )</p><p>I'm a straight male but I hope that doesn't matter as it doesn't matter to me what you are. I believe people deserve to live their lives, their way to be happy. No one is above others. It's when beliefs are pushed on others we have problems.</p><p>Thank you for taking the time to read this far and I guess I'm supposed to end with a "Like and subscribe", but I think here that means "Follow if you'd like". 😆</p>
Axel Gutmann<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> Never used that newfangled stuff - I 👴🏻started using TP3 at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@KIT_Karlsruhe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>KIT_Karlsruhe</span></a></span> (then still Universität Karlsruhe) in 1987 and changed (unenthusiatically) to <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/FORTRAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FORTRAN</span></a> after TP5.<br>Still have the complete boxes with disks and books of TP3 and TP5 here somewhere. <br><a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pascal</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/TurboPascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurboPascal</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Bryan Whitehead<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> <br>My high school didn’t have enough fancy 286 computers so some of us used original 8086 with just 384kb of ram? IDE (had to use <a href="https://macaw.social/tags/WordStar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordStar</span></a> key bindings) was Turbo <a href="https://macaw.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pascal</span></a> 3.0 and I’d exit back to DOS to compile.</p><p>I volunteered to use the worst computer so the following semester I’d get first dibs on new (for the school) computers: 386 w/4MB ram. 😎 </p><p><a href="https://macaw.social/tags/Borland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Borland</span></a></p>
The Last Psion | Alex<p>One more vintage software development book added to the collection!</p><p>I believe it was <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@amoroso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>amoroso</span></a></span> who mentioned this book on his blog as being one of his favourites.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrodev</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/recursion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recursion</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
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