ANTIC Interview 355 - Norm Draper, Draper Pascal

Published: July 25, 2018, 7 a.m.

Norm Draper, Draper Pascal \xa0 Norm Draper was the creator of Draper Pascal, a version of the Pascal programming language for the Atari 8-bit computers. Draper Pascal started as a commercial program sold directly though advertisements in computer magazines, then later became shareware. \xa0 This interview took place on July 3, 2018. \xa0 "I offered club members to pay them for every bug they would find in my software. I'd pay them $3. ... There were a few. I didn't have to pay out that much money at all, really." \xa0 Draper Pascal "New Product" in Antic magazine, Feb. 1990 \xa0 Draper Pascal 2.1 Manual \xa0 AtariWiki on Draper Pascal \xa0 AtariMania's list of Norm's software