In the most recent episode of Hanselminutes, Scott chats with founders of Mustang Software (creators of Wildcat! BBS) Jim Harrer and Scott Hunter about the BBS era. Wildcat! was written in Turbo Pascal, and Harrer and Hunter state that it was one of the first major applications developed in that language. In the first part of the show, they discuss going to California to meet with the Turbo Pascal team, visiting Anders Hejlsberg’s house, and more early history.
It’s worth a listen if you’re interested in the history of the product which started Borland and evolved into Delphi.
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As one who did a lot of programming in Turbo Pascal, and used the Wildcat BBS (as a precursor to a company intranet for exchanging files and messages, not as a public BBS), I really enjoyed that episode. Some of my favorite Hanselminutes interviews are ones where Scott steps outside the Microsoft bubble. I too found the story of the visits with Anders interesting. Their story was also a reminder of how suddenly the Internet changed things.
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