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My very first commercial app, (A pharmacy point of sale system in 1986), was written in Turbo Pascal 1.x. Nice to hear I share some similarities to the early d

My very first commercial app, (A pharmacy point of sale system in 1986), was written in Turbo Pascal 1.x. Nice to hear I share some similarities to the early days with a software system that is essentially a household name today. NB: I recently downloaded a copy of Turbo Pascal 1.x and been messing around with it in a DOS box on the Win7 laptop again. No idea where that source code I wrote 40 odd years ago is now, and no way of getting it off any sort of medium it might have been on either!

rasjani 8y ago
My first work experience was for pharmacy pos system written in Turbo Pascal too :) Implemented stock ordering via modem calling into demodulator.
xvilka 8y ago
Why not to try FreePascal and Lazarus then?
- mhd 8y ago
  If someone's going for TP 1.0 instead of even newer TP versions, I guess nostalgia plays a big role. Up until TP 4 or 5, it didn't have things we take granted now (or heck, in the 90s). Like Units.
linker3000 8y ago
I found some of my old code among a bunch of floppies a while back and stuck it on Github... https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-ASM- https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS... I used Turbo Pascal at work in an electronics R&D lab - my biggest achievements were a staff time management program and one that 'drove' a Stag EPROM/PAL/device programmer, so a dev could just point to a device firmware text file in one of a number of formats (Intel Hex etc.) and it would be parsed for errors, sent to the programmer, the right device selected, programmed and verified - this saved a lot of fiddling with the programmer itself. Programmer was similar to this: http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/Stag_PPZ_Zm2500_programmer_resources_page.htm http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/Stag_PPZ_Zm2500_programmer_re... I don't have that source code any more but I somehow managed to use TP for some home projects too! Happy days!

rasjani 8y ago

My first work experience was for pharmacy pos system written in Turbo Pascal too :) Implemented stock ordering via modem calling into demodulator.

xvilka 8y ago

Why not to try FreePascal and Lazarus then?

mhd 8y ago
If someone's going for TP 1.0 instead of even newer TP versions, I guess nostalgia plays a big role. Up until TP 4 or 5, it didn't have things we take granted now (or heck, in the 90s). Like Units.

linker3000 8y ago

I found some of my old code among a bunch of floppies a while back and stuck it on Github... https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-ASM- https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS... I used Turbo Pascal at work in an electronics R&D lab - my biggest achievements were a staff time management program and one that 'drove' a Stag EPROM/PAL/device programmer, so a dev could just point to a device firmware text file in one of a number of formats (Intel Hex etc.) and it would be parsed for errors, sent to the programmer, the right device selected, programmed and verified - this saved a lot of fiddling with the programmer itself. Programmer was similar to this: http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/Stag_PPZ_Zm2500_programmer_resources_page.htm http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/Stag_PPZ_Zm2500_programmer_re... I don't have that source code any more but I somehow managed to use TP for some home projects too! Happy days!