Old Developer tools - Turbo Pascal

Sneak Peak of old developer tools and compilers. Today we take look of Turbo Pascal System 3.01A on IBM PC 5150.

[ygstuff]

After learning BASIC on my TRS-80 Color Computer 2, my first "real" language was exactly this version of Turbo Pascal on the school's IBM PC clones. I remember reading that manual to learn coding, as my school did not have any textbooks. So much nostalgia watching this--thank you.

[cseale]

I really miss Turbo Pascal. I used it for years, and even wrote a few games with it. Good times.

[wayland]

I was struggling to write a large program in MS Basic on MS DOS. When I bought Turbo Pascal for just £65 I was amazed what I could do. I'd already learned Pascal at collage. The ability to compile programs made them fast and the features of Pascal kept large programs from turning into spaghetti. It changed my life.

[MatsEngstrom]

Thanks! That brought back memories. But your monitor have the most extreme long afterglow of the phosphor I've ever seen - like 15-20 seconds. It's almost approaching the afterglow of a radar-screen.

[bjbell]

Turbo Pascal became Delphi in the 1990's. It was the best Windows developing tool but I couldn't get the company I worked for to even look at it. They ended up using Visual Basic and took twice as long to complete the application and were unable to include all the features the users wanted. They also had to go out a buy a third party grid that only did 7 out of 10 things they needed.

[BolasDear]

how lovely this screen is, how childish that keyboard sounds, i loved that key stroke sounds so old fashioned music to ears, eho, clang clang clang .

[billj]

November 2022- I'm watching this video on my old computer that has Turbo Pascal 3 on it and able to be run.

[becconvideo]

I did some HP41C scientific calculator and then Sinclair ZX81 BASIC programming before I started my Math studies at Leipzig University in 1986 - and we had Turbo Pascal as part of the curriculum for "real and serious programming" - then still on 8bit CP/M east German robotron PC1715 machines - 64 Kilobyte - two diskettes - amber screen. Nice memories. After all these years I still remember the ^KB ... ^KK sequences ... While back then we didn't take Turbo Pascal very serious and went for some really big such as C - the Borland IDE was actually very practical:
- quick application development
- small memory footprint
- one can even dynamically load modules into memory (no real linker though)
- compact and easy to learn language - compiler finds most of errors (as demonstrated in the video 🙂 )
- dynamic memory structures (without the pointer hassle, C brought with it)

So it is a shame that they went out of business so quickly. Visual Basic was a mess compared to Turbo Pascal.

[davemurey]

Я обучался в университете на занятиях по Информатике именно на этой версии Паскаля. Это было в 1992году, Я решил выпендриться и перешёл на версию 5.5.

[leandrotami]

Wow, I've never seen this TP version. It was clearly released before they developed Turbo Vision, the library that they used for both TP and TC

[olafbaeyens]

Turbo pascal, I also recall Borland pascal.

[freedom_aint_free]

My very first structured language, there is with actual functions and procedures separated from the main loop was Pascal, running on 8 bit DOS and CP/M and it was a big big evolution, actually even as late as early 2000's in my university's introduction to programming, Pascal was the language of choice.
There is an article written by Prof. Brian Kernighan, one of the creators of the C language, that really put the last nail in Pascal's coffin for me, explaining how in its original specification (commercial version like Borland's Turbo Pascal didn't follow the specification 100%), Pascal was totally unsuitable for "Real world, large, safe and performant software".
That being said, remember that Prof Niklaus Wirth created Pascal to be a educative language designed to teach good programming practices (well structured code, type safety, etc) what I think that it did very well, and it did spawn many other very good languages(Ada, Oberon-1 Oberon-2, Modula-1, Modula-2, etc), they didn't become mainstream for a whole lot of issues, but I think that timing was its crux and "PASCAL FAMILY" of languages couldn't steal the thunder from C/C++/JAVA family.

[OggVorbis]

Oh the sound of this gorgeous keyboard, with f keys on the left. Perfect ❤🎉

[ladronsiman]

I also learned programming using Borland products ..Turbo Assambler, Turbo pascal .. The funny thing is that back then a PC was so expensive ..I could not afford an IBM PC ..so i wanted badly a computer ..Some one offered me an ATARI ST .new for cheap ..I bought it ..And this was a great idea .. I discovered that i could use a PC emulator and run DOS ..and then run turbo pascal and others .. So i had a PC running very close to the native PC speed .Then i discovered that there was a Macintosh emulator ..Now with my Atari i could run graphical publishing soft at a faster speed than a real Mac( it uses the same CPU).. To top it all up ..I discovered that there Minix was available for ATARI, so i could run a Unix clone .In those days ..there was only ATT Unix .and it only run later on 286 machines or 386 machines .. So i learned Unix scripts in my old Atari This is my Atari and I story, , we had a nice life and lived happy ever after !

[nmuxelcrack]

nice video! im new to pascal and i want to make an operating system based on both MS-DOS and older versions of windows like win 3.1 or 95. could you make a tutorial for that pls?

[andrewgibson]

Was enjoying this very much but can't quite read the screen

[LindenAshbyMK]

Did turbo pascal have extended DOS memory support ?

[xadamdudex]

I wonder if you can still download a copy of turbo Pascal and MASM