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Turbo Pascal For The Mac Programming With Business Applications 1987

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Turbo Pascal for the Mac: Programming with Business Applications is a 1987 book by Leon A. Wortman, published by TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, as TAB book no. 2927. First edition, first printing; ISBN 0-8306-2927-0 (paperback); Library of Congress HF5548.5.P14W67 1987, card number 87-7134.[1] The Library of Congress record gives the extent as x, 274 pages.[2]

After two introductory chapters on Turbo Pascal, the book is a collection of heavily commented business and utility programs for Borland's Turbo Pascal on the Macintosh: charts, cash-flow and depreciation calculations, loan tables, sales reports, text utilities, printer set-up and test programs for the ImageWriter, and a small database built up over three chapters.[3]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[3]

  • Introduction . . . Get Ready!, p. viii
  • 1 ... Get Set!, p. 1; 2 ... And Go!, p. 5
  • 3 HISTOGRAM, p. 23; 4 CONTRIBUTION, p. 27; 5 DAYSCREDIT, p. 33; 6 CHECKBOOK, p. 41; 7 DEPRECIATION, p. 53; 8 COUNTWORDS, COUNTSTROKES & COUNTCHARACTERS, p. 65; 9 INVESTVAL, p. 73; 10 LOANPAYMENTS, p. 79
  • 11 NETWORTH, p. 87; 12 AUTOREPORT & TRIPREPORT, p. 97; 13 SETPRINTER, p. 113; 14 TIMETREND, p. 119; 15 PLOTTER, p. 129; 16 METRICSENGLISH, p. 139; 17 SORTER, p. 147; 18 APPRAISAL, p. 153; 19 BREAKEVEN, p. 163; 20 REPCOMMISSION, p. 173
  • 21 SALESREPORT, p. 181; 22 MINICALC, p. 187; 23 PRINTERTEST1 & PRINTERTEST2, p. 191; 24 COPYIT, p. 199; 25 PRINTIT1 & PRINTIT2, p. 201; 26 SHOWIT, p. 207; 27 TYPEIT, p. 211; 28 EDITIT1-3, p. 215; 29 START, UPDATE & LISTALL, p. 223; 30 DATABASE1, p. 233; 31 DATABASE2, p. 241
  • Appendices: A Turbo Pascal Expressions and Rules, p. 251; B Turbo Pascal and Standard Pascal, p. 257; C Identifiers, Reserved Words, Constants, Variables, and Expressions, p. 261; D Predefined Procedures and Functions, p. 265; E I/O Error Handling, p. 271
  • Index, p. 273

What this book does not contain

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It is a programming book. It has no service procedures, schematics or electrical data for the Macintosh; Apple's repair documentation is in Category:Apple Service Source. The hosted scan is 270 PDF pages; the page before several chapter openings (for example pp. 40 and 72) is not in the scan.

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Download: Turbo_Pascal_For_The_Mac_Programming_With_Business_Applications_1987.pdf (80.9 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ Leon A. Wortman, Turbo Pascal for the Mac: Programming with Business Applications (TAB Books, 1987), cover, title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 1-3).
  2. ↑ Open Library, Turbo Pascal for the Mac: programming with business applications, record OL2378669M, from Library of Congress catalogue data. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wortman, Turbo Pascal for the Mac, Contents, pp. iii-vi (PDF pp. 4-7), and Introduction, pp. viii-x (PDF pp. 9-11).
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