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Re: Wanted: Apple Pascal "Wirth" flowchart poster

From "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Wanted: Apple Pascal "Wirth" flowchart poster
Date 2016-01-31 17:22 -0600
Message-ID <dh7ja3Fa366U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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<underlord55@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:894978e1-f1d1-42af-92c8-aff179617a7c@googlegroups.com...
> On Tuesday, July 18, 2000 at 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, Charles Eicher wrote:
>> For many years, I've been seeking a particular relic from my professional
>> programming past, I figured maybe someone in this newsgroup might have 
>> seen one
>> or know where to get one (or even an image of one).
>>
>> Long ago (1980?) I used to have a poster produced by Apple hanging on my 
>> office
>> wall above my workstation. It had the entire scheme of Pascal laid out in
>> flowcharts, using the flowchart notation from Wirth's Pascal book. It was
>> incredibly useful, everything you needed to know was all in one place, if 
>> you
>> had the chart you never needed to use any reference books. And it was a
>> beautiful piece of graphic art too, nicely printed in bright color on a 
>> black
>> background. Alas, I left the company and did not manage to escape with 
>> the
>> poster, they were highly prized since they were so useful.
>>
>> I would consider paying a relatively insane amount of money to obtain one 
>> of
>> these posters. I expect it to be impossible to obtain, but I figured it 
>> couldn't
>> hurt to ask around.
>
> DIY? - http://pascal-central.com/images/pascalposter.jpg

If you got a decent Usenet server you wouldn't be tempted to respond to a 
message from 2000 AD. 

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Re: Wanted: Apple Pascal "Wirth" flowchart poster underlord55@gmail.com - 2016-01-31 15:17 -0800
  Re: Wanted: Apple Pascal "Wirth" flowchart poster "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-31 17:22 -0600
    Re: Wanted: Apple Pascal "Wirth" flowchart poster Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-31 22:31 -0500
  Re: Wanted: Apple Pascal "Wirth" flowchart poster "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 13:03 +1100
  Re: Wanted: Apple Pascal "Wirth" flowchart poster "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-02-02 00:40 -0600

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