[GEM Development] Ventura Publisher (Was "submission of comments")

[pspete1 at pnc.com.au]

G'day!

I regularly kick myself that a local auction house had a fruit crate full 
of GEM Ventura packets, all unopened, several years ago, and I had an 
appointment that Saturday, so missed the auction. (Just barely pre-on-line-
bidding days.)

Life is full of missed opportunities. :-(

Peter
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:01:55 -0400, Davey Brain <dsbrain at neosplice.com> 
wrote :

> Shane M. Coughlan wrote thusly:
> >>
> >>I have the following suggestions: I found it, I found it, I found it.
> > 
> > Eurika.
> > 
> >>A little company called Xerox once made a product called Ventura 
Publisher
> > 
> > DOS/GEM Edition (Version 3).  I have all (15) of the 5.25 disks.  
Copyright
> > 1986, 1990.  Anyone interested in contacting XEROX to see if they will
> > release it once and for all?
> > 
> >>I have not attempted to install or run it...or even to read the 5.25
> > 
> > disks.  There is a very good possibility that the disks work.  They were
> > well sealed and in prestine condition.
> > 
> >>Do other people have these things, or have they all but vanished from 
the
> > 
> > face of the Earth?
> > 
> >>bbaker
> 
> Hi,
> This is truly good news.  BTW, I've got floppies for the TI-99 & C=64 & 
> Atari home computers that are over 20 years old and seldom have a 
> failure even though some were stored in damp places and even have some 
> mildew on them. CoCo & Apple ][ disks seem more prone to fail due to 
> moisture.  PC disks do OK, especially if they are the smaller formats 
> like 360K/720K.  So probably they are fine.  Best to copy them to a hard 
> drive ASAP to make sure they are archived, then burn it to CD if possible.
> 
> I have Ventura Publisher demo for OS/2 but haven't ever used it.  I 
> recently got a trailer-load of older computer stuff including tons of 
> DOS/WIN software like DBase and Paradox, etc.  Included was a copy (11 5 
> 1/4" disks in Xerox disk box) of Ventura Publishing Series - Ventura 
> Publisher Edition V1.1 for ??? from 1987.  I haven't looked at it yet, 
> I've got to set up one of my systems with a 5 1/4" floppy, probably my 
> HP Vectra 486 or P133, or maybe my Tandy 2500.
> 
> Slated to come here right away was another box with a load of floppies 
> from Xerox including GEM 3 and more Ventura Publisher (saw them with my 
> own eyes) but somehow it ended up in storage.  We've been slated to do 
> an inventory for a month but it keeps raining on Saturdays.  We are 
> using an open truck to move stuff and there is so much we have to move 
> stuff outside to get to stuff inside, so we have to have a dry day. 
> It's not supposed to rain until late Saturday this weekend, so as soon 
> as we can do it then I'll let you know what all I have also.
> 
> Hopefully I'll find my copy of Win2K server also...hope it wasn't stolen 
> the day we loaded it up, as I was sure I had it to come here.
> -- 
> Davey Brain
> dsbrain at NOSPAM!neosplice.com or
> dsbrain2001 at yahoo.NOSPAM!com
> 
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