Know Your Delphi History

Here's an interesting look at the time line of Delphi and Pascal for that matter. For the two readers out there who I know are wondering, I wrote my first line of Pascal code in the fall of 1984.

posted by Kirby | 07-Jun-2005 4:10 PM | comments (4)

I wrote my first line of BASIC on the TI-99/4A, which shortly after I started playing Parsec and ditching school.

posted by Dave | June 8 06:24 AM

I wrote my first line of BASIC on a Sinclair 1000 (http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html). I don't remeber the year but it was before I wrote PASCAL. I thought it was 1980 or 1981 but according the link above the Sinclair was introduced in July of 1982. 1982 doesn't really jive with my memory though.

posted by Kirby Turner | June 8 07:21 AM

Yes, the sinclair was 1982.

I purchased one as soon as it came out -- took me a few weeks of mowing lawns to pay for it. I kept it for just a few weeks and returned for refund and moved to a TRS-80 Model I that I got for same price (used). Learned Z80 Assembler, BASIC, Forth, Pascal, and Mod-2 on the TRS-80 platform. Had a little help aquiring the complilers/interpreters for each :)

Tried TurboPascal in 1984/85 once in College and had access to PC, and wrote Pascal programs on Prime minicomputer for class in 1984/85 as well... around same time as PL/1 and COBOL. Oh, the good old days. he he he.

I must say, though I really appreciate the modern OOP languages and sophisticated GUIs, there was something nice about the simplicity of character-based UI's and the code of old. Either way, viva la Pascal!

posted by mike | June 8 09:53 AM

Ah the Trash-80. Good machine. I remember toying around with it from time to time. I also did Pascal programming on the Apple IIE. I even carried around the compact version when visiting client sites. The good ol' days...

posted by Kirby Turner | June 8 11:43 AM

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