Some more Compuserve memories
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/20
Some years ago, I wrote CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down on 20171215.
Getting older and various people passing away made me relive some of the CompuServe memories where I used to be [Wayback/Archive] “100013,1443”.
Semi-offline access software like TapCIS and later OzCIS and OzWin helped lessening the bill of mainly getting to the CompuServe forums BPROGA that hosted Turbo Pascal (and later PASCAL for Borland Pascal plus Delphi), BORGMBH (Borland Germany) and PCVENB (for Turbo Power Software: a back then – large supplier of tools and libraries – later acquired by a casino software company) learned to know a few TeamB members and other (now) oldies like Neil J. Rubenking.
TeamB members coming to mind: Pat Ritchey, Kurt B. Barthelmess, Rudy Velthuis, David Nottage, Steve Fischkoff, Nick Hodges, Steve Schafer, Paul A. LeBlanc and others (I wish someone had a full list of past members).
Some links:
- [Wayback/Archive] TeamB (by TeamB member Pat Ritchey, author of [Wayback/Archive] SourceEdit)
- [Wayback/Archive] CompuServe Index v2.0 – Macintosh Repository
- Borland Application Products Forum / BORAPP
- Borland Database Products Forum / BORDB
- Borland International / BORLAND
- Borland Programming Forum A / BPROGA
- Borland Programming Forum B / BPROGB
- The Borland GmbH Forum / BORGMBH
- TurboPower Software / PCVENB (PC Vendor B Forum)
- [Wayback/Archive] Complete list of public forums as of June 1, 1993 – Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki
Borland Applications Forum+ BORAPP CIS Borland C++/DOS Forum+ BCPPDOS CIS Borland C++/Windows Forum+ BCPPWIN CIS Borland Dbase Products Forum+ BORDB CIS Borland Developer Tool Forum+ BDEVTOOLS CIS Borland GmbH Forum+ BORGMBH CIS Borland Paradox/DOS Forum+ PDOXDOS CIS Borland Paradox/Windows Forum+ PDOXWIN CIS Borland PASCAL Forum+ BPASCAL CIS Borland Quattro Pro Forum+ QUATTROPRO CIS Borland dBASE Forum+ DBASE CIS
- [Wayback/Archive] compuserve bproga – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] compuserve borgmbh – Google Search
- semi-offline access software that at first basically did screen scraping until better APIs became available:
- [Archive] Neil Rubenking (@neiljrubenking) | Twitter / [Wayback/Archive] Neil J. Rubenking Bio and Latest News, Articles and Reviews | PCMag (famous of his PC Magazine “Lab Notes” written in Turbo Pascal, Turbo Pascal for Windows and Delphi, often based on discussions in BPROGA).
- [Wayback/Archive] Make your own online help in Compute! magazine is an other example of things sparked by BPROGA.
–jeroen
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
Leave a comment