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Author Topic: Borland's Museum of Antique Software  (Read 15074 times)

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Borland's Museum of Antique Software
« on: August 29, 2006, 12:59 AM »
Perhaps it's fitting that as the C++ Builder contest is drawing to a close, Gothic and I were reminscing about programming in the "old days" of Borland's turbo pascal and turbo C and of console mode programs using the ibm pc's ascii character set which seemed designed with gamers in mind, and I stumbled across this nice collection of old Borland software:

http://community.borland.com/museum/

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Re: Borland's Museum of Antique Software
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2006, 01:05 AM »
nice find!

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Re: Borland's Museum of Antique Software
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2006, 01:12 AM »
and wikipedia is the perfect resource for such things, of course:
http://en.wikipedia....rg/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

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Re: Borland's Museum of Antique Software
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2006, 01:22 AM »
Codepage 865 for teh win...

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