My Turbo Pascal story is weirder than most I think. When I was much younger, someone I knew was learning COBOL and the "editor" they were told to use was a pirated binary on a floppy. That binary was called tp3 and nobody paid any attention to it until I, wanting to also learn a bit about COBOL, decided to try it out myself and read the notice that the program output. Something about Pascal.

Long story short, I ended up looking into Pascal and using that tp3 "editor" to learn a bit of Pascal, which seemed a lot more fun than COBOL.