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A few more classics on BitSavers in the /pdf/borland tree
Hope you like these classics from the early Borland era: The 1985 Turbo Pascal Version 3.0 Reference Manual Jan 1985 Turbo Tutor_Version_1.0: a Self-Study Guide on Turbo Pascal Jun 1987 Borland Byte Ad...
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IBM Pascal Compiler Aug81 pdf (via: Bitsavers’ Index of /pdf/ibm/pc/dos)
Wow, I didn’t know that IBM had their own DOS based Pascal compiler for the PC in 1981, but they did, and BitSavers just uploaded their manual IBM_Pascal_Compiler_Aug81.pdf Edit: document moved from...
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UCSD Pascal – memories from the past….
Just found out that the kind people at BitSavers added some scanned USCD Pascal documentation in PDF format: The 1981 Softech Microsystems UCSD p-System and UCSD Pascal version IV_internal Architecture...
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Back to the 80s: Apple Pascal on the Lisa Machine
Talking about Pascal history: Index of /pdf/apple/lisa/pascal_monitor. That was then, soon it will become easy to write Pascal apps for Apple iOS using Delphi XE2 :) –jeroenFiled under: BitSavers.org,...
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remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference...
Remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide on bitsavers.org in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/8086. Intel MCS-86 is/was the 16-bit range of x86 processors. I...
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New BitSavers.org PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland...
The PDF Archive at bitsavers.org has recently put online these raster image PDF scans from Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994) and Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993) Remnants of the past,...
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New Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers (including the Final May 1990 issue)
Back in the days I started programming, Micro Cornucopia was a wonderful magazine, so I’m glad that BitSavers scanned a few more issues and put them online today, a week after some great PDF scans:...
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More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1987 and 1988
Last quarter, 11 issues of Micro Cornucopia appeared on BitSavers including the final May 1990 issue. This month, another 7 issues appeared, most of which cover a form of Pascal in one or more of the...
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memories of the past: BitSavers.org just added a whole bunch CRAY documents
Nobody but very wealthy research institutions could afford CRAY machines. They were the computing workhorse of their time. Now your smartphone is faster (: BitSavers just added a bunch of CRAY...
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2 More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1986
2 more issues got on-line both close to a 100 pages each: Micro_Cornucopia_#29_Apr86.pdf. Micro_Cornucopia_#32_Oct86.pdf. So the only issues missing are #28, #30 and #31. –jeroen via: More Old Micro...
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Logitech Logimouse C7 and Mouse programmers toolkit PDFs at Bitsavers
Bitsavers published 2 new Logitech PDFs: Logitech_Logimouse_C7_Firmware_Rev_3.0_Jan86.pdf Logitech_Mouse_Programmers_Toolkit_Nov86.pdf Who didn’t have a Logitech mouse back then? I had the C7, various...
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Some Apple ][, ][plus, IIe, IIc links
1983 Apple IIe ad (thanks Apple2History.org) click to enlarge Some of you might remember that Apple ][ plus and Apple IIe was part of my early programming days. I vividly remember the Vlasveld...
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Link clearance: history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language /...
This post lists a lot of links related to the history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePascal / etc. No mentioning of Pascal should start without Niklaus Wirth. At the time of writing...
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Z80: the “User Manual” was already 300+ pages (:
Today yet another post in the series of BitSavers and History articles. I already wrote a bit on the Z80 processor in XOR swap/exchange: nowadays an almost extinct means to exchange two distinct...
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Apple I Cassette Interface Documentation at bitsavers (Apple 1, not Apple 2);...
The BitSavers /pdf/apple/apple_I directory now contains a PDF of the Apple I Cassette Interface Documentation. Awesome history (: It even has this very old Apple address on it: APPLE COMPUTER COMPANY...
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BitSavers.org just added 7 missing scans of PascalNews newsletters (1975…1983)
For anyone keeping up with Pascal history, these uploads are new: 03_Pascal_Newsletter_Feb75.pdf 04_Pascal_Newsletter_Jul76.pdf 13_Pascal_Newsletter_Dec78.pdf 20_Pascal_Newsletter_Dec80.pdf...
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2 More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1986 « The Wiert Corner...
Almost two years ago, I wrote “the only issues missing are #28, #30 and #31.”. As of mid May any more: Micro_Cornucopia_#28_Feb86.pdf. Micro_Cornucopia_#30_Jun86.pdf. Micro_Cornucopia_#31_Aug86.pdf....
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Some links and references to IBM CUA: Common User Access which defines a lot...
Back in the late 80s and early 90s of last century, engineers Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves set a standard that still influences the user interfaces and user experience of today: the IBM Common...
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