Court Guinness3d ago

Podcast: What Happened to Dbase?


My recent blog post titled “What Happened to Dbase?” is now available to listen to as a podcast on my Spotify channel and on all other podcasting channels where it is available. You can also listen to it below. I hope you enjoy it.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/07cP93XJbH9rA3fnyRo3vH

Original Blog Post

https://courtg9000.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/what-happened-to-dbase/

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#ashtonTate #borland #databases #dbase #dbms #podcast #technology
Show threadRetroComputingMXJun 13

Fue una muestra clara de cómo 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 llevó su filosofía de velocidad y productividad al Macintosh, convirtiendo a 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥 en una herramienta muy atractiva para programadores de los 80.

#retrocomputing #Borland #TurboPascal #Macintosh #apple #retrosoftware #retrocomputingmx

RetroComputingMXJun 13

𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥 para Macintosh fue una de esas joyas de 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 que demostraron que programar también podía ser rápido, potente y elegante en la era clásica del Mac.

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 presumía algo impresionante para la época: compilar 1,420 líneas de código en apenas 7.1 segundos.

Además, ofrecía un entorno integrado, uso de “Units”, manejo de ventanas y una experiencia que buscaba hacer el desarrollo mucho más ágil dentro del ecosistema Apple.

#retrocomputing #Borland #TurboPascal #Macintosh #apple

Show threadRamesh GuptaJun 9

⬆️ @vij

>> Funny that Apple historically banned iOS apps which let you code.

No other company has had as close a brush with death than #Apple, only to come back swinging the way they did.

There was a time when the whole industry had left Apple for dead, and developer tools vendors including #Mircrosoft and #Borland had a great deal to do with screwing up compilers and other tools. Apple did not want those shenanigans repeated on iOS while it was still on the vine.

Now it is secure (heh heh)

Pedro AdelinoJun 5
Good old times. 🤩
#pocketdos
#x86
#retro
#dos622
#msdos
#windows300
#pocket8086
#microsoft
#opl3
#yamaha
#trident
#vga
#nec
#v20
#v30
#turbo
#pascal
#borland
#pcbasic
#gwbasic
#basic
#assembly
#ibm
Bohdan Korablov 🇺🇦🇺🇸May 27

https://bados.life/2026/05/27/one-of-my-first-programs-from-school/

#programming #nostalgia #cpp #borland

One of my first programs from school

I found one of my first programs from school — a small C++ app for calculating the discriminant, written in April 2004 with Borland C++Builder 6.

BaDos Life
Brian SwetlandMay 12

Well this sure brings back memories.

It runs a lot faster in DOSBOX than on the 10MHz 512KB Dual-360K-Floppy XT clone I originally ran it on when I was a kid.

Disk Images
https://archive.org/details/borland-turbo-c-v2.0

User and Reference Manual:
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturer2.01988_23162264
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturuideVer2.01988_19310204

If you copy all 6 disks into a single INSTALL directory, you can run INSTALL.EXE from there and it'll do its thing.

#Borland #TurboC

Vladimir SavićMay 10

#GitHub's interface if the platform had been created by #Borland in the 90s 😎

[Source: https://xcancel.com/ponceto91/status/2050901293124726900]

#mockup

Richard Orilla May 9
Finally done with my #coding escapades related to coding a virtual terminal inside a terminal using #Borland C++ 5.02 and #Win9x. It is a fun project to code with especially when I did not use any AI at all. For those who are interested, you can get the source here: https://gitlab.com/ShinAska/terminal-borland-poc
Richard Louie Orilla / terminal-borland-poc · GitLab

GitLab.com

GitLab
@haitchfiveFeb 11

Ahhh those were the times...

#borland #turbopascal #tp3 #retrocomputing