GEE, I Miss Borland!

[Cow Poke]

We were gabbing in ShoutBox about computers and stuff, and expanded and extended memory, and how 640k was a barrier, requiring "memory managers" like Headroom and TSRs like Sidekick.... (Don't forget VROOMM - the Virtual Realtime Object Oriented Memory Manager)

Reminded me of Borland, and their LOGICAL "like a book" licensing scheme. I was a diehard user of Quattro Pro and could make it do ALL KINDS of neat stuff - more like an accounting program than a spreadsheet - with their wide range of macros, etc.

At one point, I wrote a letter to Borland (an actual snail mail letter) congratulating them on such great products, and about a month later, received a box by UPS --- including a licensed copy of EVERY PRODUCT THEY SOLD AT THE TIME! for FREE!

Borland C++
Borland Delphi
Brief (text editor)
C++Builder
C++BuilderX
C#Builder
CodeWright
Entera (Acquired from OEC)
IntraBuilder
JBuilder
Kylix
ObjectVision
Turbo Assembler
Turbo BASIC (now PowerBASIC)
Turbo C
Turbo C++
Turbo Debugger
Turbo Delphi
Turbo Modula-2
Turbo Pascal
Turbo Pascal Database Toolbox
Turbo Pascal Editor Toolbox
Turbo Pascal Graphix Toolbox
Turbo Pascal Numerical Methods Toolbox
Turbo Pascal Tutor
Turbo Profiler
Turbo Prolog (now Visual Prolog)
dBase
InterBase
Borland Paradox
Sidekick
Sidekick Plus
SuperKey
Turbo Lightning (TSR spell checker)
Borland Eureka the Solver
Borland Reflex
Quattro
Quattro Pro

[DesertBerean]

The only Borland I'm familiar with was their poster and card making stuff.

[Cow Poke]

The only Borland I'm familiar with was their poster and card making stuff.

Borland did that? Maybe you're thinking of Broderbund?

[DesertBerean]

Oops. Yeah.

[mossrose]

Al?