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I got my first copy about that time. I'd just recently gotten a KayPro 4 (a CP/M-80 computer), and had been playing with Basic and couple of other languages that came with it; and then I saw an ad for Turbo Pascal in Profiles, the KayPro magazine. I'd used UCSD Pascal a lot at that time, and the screen shot looked—well, not the same, but reminiscent. The cost was $49.95 (IIRC) for a real Pascal compiler, at a time when compilers were usually hundreds of dollars. I ordered a copy immediately (that is, in the next five minutes), and when it showed up in my mail box it felt like Christmas.



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