Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/07/recreation-of-the-pin-cracking-program-from-terminator-2.html
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I was around Edward Furlongs age when terminator 2 came out and really into computers. So of course that was the coolest scene in a movie, ever.
Weird
Borland’s Turbo Pascal evolved into Borland Delphi, now Embarcadero Delphi.
Just yesterday I needed to change a program (just under 1M lines of code) developed in Delphi 7 (released 2002)
You get that running on Windows 10!
“I haven’t written Turbo Pascal in about 25 years, but do you ever really forget?”
One can certainly forget the editor key bindings, which I discovered when I recently fired up TP 3.0 in DOSBox for old times sake. (The earlier versions of TP weren’t equipped with that VERY useful menu bar.)
When the Portfolio hit the streets, I became infatuated with the idea of a pocket-sized real PC. After seeing it in use, if only as a prop, in what became my all-time favorite film, I decided that one day Real Soon Now I would own one. I even filled a (paper) notebook with ideas for a small BASIC compiler/IDE suitable for on-the-go use in such a pint-sized environment.
At it turns out, I never have owned a Portfolio. That notebook, if it still exists, is yellowing away in a storage box somewhere. Although I have owned several much more powerful portables over the years, including an even smaller HP 95LX (a neat toy, except for those HP chiclet keys), the Portfolio has always had a much higher coolness factor in my eyes.
Hmm, I came here to say that, as the sort of child who owned a 95LX, I sneered at John Connor’s K-Mart-looking Portfolio. Although it did make me want a mag stripe reader.
You can buy this one on Ebay with the T2 program pre-loaded.
The real crime here was his accomplice’s mullet.
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