Now that XE8 is out, some Turbo Pascal history
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/14
A few people asked, so below is a picture of just a piece of my books closet.
From left to right:
- Object Professional 1.0 manuals volume 1-3
- BTree Filer 5.0 manual
- Turbo Professional manual (from 1985!)
- Borland Paradox Engine 3.0 manuals
- Crystal Reports Developers Edition
- Borland Open Architecture Handbook for Pascal
- Turbo Pascal 5.5 OOP Guide
- Turbo Pascal 5.5 Reference Guide
- Turbo Pascal 5.5 User’s Guide
- Turbo Pascal Quick Reference
- Programming with Turbo Vision
This is only the front-left portion of one shelve. Most shelves are two deep and about 4 times as wide as what you see here (:
I have floppies somewhere in my archive too. Need to dig them up some day.
–jeroen
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Mateusz said
Hello.
I’m very interested in Borland Open Architecture Handbook for pascal.
Is it possible for you to share it?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Mateusz
jpluimers said
Currently the book is in storage. If you really need it in PDF form, ping me through the contact form and I will see what I can do given I need to carefully spend my energy.
In the mean time, I found out there is non-Pascal version of it too which might help you further: https://cd.textfiles.com/psl/pslv2nv06/PRGMMING/DOS/TOOLS1/BC4BOA.ZIP
Mateusz said
Message sent.
I hope it went through.
Cheers,
Mateusz
Eduardo said
Turbo Vision was my loved choice for a lot of time.
It was really sad to not see many adopting it. We made a product with it, with few internal tricks we made it capable to be multi threaded and since it is a text based window framework, we were capable to make it work thru tty monitors!
That was fun, we made it a simple IBM PC XT run many TTY terminals with a windows based system. It was better than initial MS windows versions :)
Then we went to add a script engine, and we added a Forth based script, and writing scripts was really easy. An engine based on Borland Pascal 5.5 OOP with Turbo Vision as framework and Forth as the script engine. That was fun to see working.
Nowadays there is not much more fun like that.
jpluimers said
We keep reinventing wheels, don’t we?
Bill said
I also enjoyed Turbo Vision and I adopted it for building dos applications.