Date   : Sun, 25 Mar 1984 11:05:34 EST
From   : "Ferd Brundick (VLD/LTTB)" <fsbrn@Brl-Voc.ARPA>
Subject: Re:  Turbo Pascal delays

In an earlier message I told how Borland had lost my original order,
so I placed the order with Customer Service instead of thru the order-
only operator. I called CS on March 7, the receipt is dated the 9th,
and UPS stamped it on the 13th.  I received the disk (8" Z-80) on
March 21, exactly 2 weeks after I spoke with CS.  Considering the fact
that I live on the East coast, that was pretty fast delivery.

I am very happy with the product so far.  The manual has several typos,
but most of them are obvious.  The spreadsheet they give as a sample
program is surprisingly useful, but it does contain one undocumented
command -- /C will clear the current workspace.  I had to resort to
trial-and-error to put a formula into a cell (start with a left paren).
My only major concern is the fact that the command changes I made with
TINST were not saved; I tried to remap DEL into Ctrl-H and Ctrl-H into
Ctrl-B.  TINST acknowledges the changes, but TURBO doesn't.

Overall, the TURBO system reminds me of Apple Pascal, but it runs FAST.

                                        dsw, fferd
                                        Fred S. Brundick
                                        USABRL, APG, MD.
                                        <fsbrn@brl-voc>