Oopsies. A couple of them in yesterday’s big collection.
First, Turbo Pascal 5.5 in the link is a DOS program, not a Mac program. The Mac references appear to be because the Mac inspired certain things about that particular release.
Second, the way I replied to Jeff Hurchalla’s mail suggested I hadn’t started writing the Windows/Linux book. What I should have said was, “If I thought the book would cover the expenses I’d have to outlay to finish it,” rather than “..to write it.” All in all I wrote between 250 and 300 pages and probably have another 50 pages or so of notes. I think that qualifies as a start, by most reasonable people’s definition.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.