From the Vault – Danny Thorpe: Old Turbo Pascal floppies
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/20
On the 43rd birthday of Turbo Pascal 1.0, I dug up the picture by Danny Thorpe I saw in 2014 at [Wayback/Archive] From the Vault – Danny Thorpe
Sadly, Danny passed away in 2021, last month 5 years ago, from brain cancer. The floppies are gone as the house from Cindy and Danny burned down in the CZU Lightning Complex Fires, the codename for the autumn 2020 lightning fires in the San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, and his website is now gone.
The [Wayback/Archive] Danny Thorpe – Dream & Deliver home page had the last post “CZU Lightning Complex Fire Upper Alba Road” dated 20200824 with single line “This was our home and farm on Alba Road.” followed by the devastating series of pictures.
Danny and I had been friends since the mid 1990s and shared the same Bevacizumab medicine during our cancer treatments.
Parts of his website live on in the Wayback Machine under https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://dannythorpe.com/* and memories to my dear friend will last in our minds. Cindy is still alive and kicking, and we keep in touch every now and then: last year we even managed to grab lunch when she was in Europe.
A good day to light a (virtual) candle: 🕯️.
--jeroen
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