Museum of Compilers
Posted on:: February 1st, 2003
Borland offers its antique compilers and development environments — Turbo Pascal and Turbo C in particular — for free at their museum site. I was one of the first customers for Turbo Pascal when it was a $29.00 wonder and hadn’t yet been acquired by Borland, so I’m looking forward to the musty rush of nostalgia.
Categories: Uncategorized dw
Can you check your link?
Wow! That wasn’t even close! Sorry. I’ve fixed the blog entry. Here’s the right url:
http://bdn.borland.com/museum
Do folks today get the buzz we got from shrinkwrapped software? I mean … I can relive the moment of unpacking QB4.5. And the full version of Paradox, my gawd, I felt like I’d become a member of the Manhattan project! When I first ran the multiple-window examples from Pascal for Windows, well, I just /knew/ I’d become a member of some sort of priesthood.
BTW, Dave (and friends), do you have any recollection of a Broderbund program called “Thinking Cap” (for C64)? I would love to port it … never found such an intelligent thought-liner.
Have you tried Squeak.org? You may get some of the same frisson. I myself have given up on it, although it’s being highly touted by people I deeply trust.
Nope, I don’t remember Thinking Cap. But, I spent about 2 weeks with a C64 before giving it to my nephews. My first “real” computer was a KayPro II.