Amazing :D - it's quite similar to my experience. I think many folks naturally ended up moving to Turbo Pascal after Basic. I believe many of the BBS systems were initially written in Turbo Pascal (v4?). I know for a fact that WWIV, Telegard, and Renegade were all in done in TP, and then later moved to C++ because of the limitations associated with running Door games.. ah, the good 'ole times