November 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Turbo Pascal v1.0!

Sip from the Firehose : November 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Turbo Pascal v1.0!: "25 years ago we launched Turbo Pascal version 1.0. I remember meeting Philippe Kahn at Comdex Las Vegas that year. I was working for Softsel Computer Products (a software distributor now called Merisel). Philippe stopped by the Softsel booth that year. I had a pod in the Softsel booth where software vendors could stop by to try and get their products into the distribution/retail channel (long before web shop sites). Philippe said he was not looking for a distributor. We continued talking and I mentioned that I also did programming for Softsel using Microsoft Pascal. I was also using Digital Research Pascal for CPM, and the UCSD Pascal (p) System on my Apple II+ at the time."