[GEM Development] Ventura Publisher again

[Davey Brain]

Hi all,
I finally had a little time to set-up my new-to-me IBM PS/1 Expert I 
bought for $10.01 total on eBay (Win95 was on it) which has a 5 1/4" 
drive so I took a look at my Xerox Ventura Publisher disks (11 disks - 
Xerox Desktop Publishing Series Ventura Publisher Edition Release 1.1). 
  I was pleasently surprised to see the second disk had some kind of GEM 
on it.  I took a look at the book with it ("Desktop Publishing Primer 
with Ventura Publisher", by Kathy Lang, (C)1988 Glentop, Howard W. Sames 
& Company).  On page 24 it mentions running it alongside GEM as VP uses 
a special version of GEM.  It says V1.2 runs quite happily alongside GEM 
system as GEM uses it's own set of directories with distinct names that 
do not clash with VP 1.2.  I wonder about V1.1...so later tonight I 
might try some GEM/VP experiments if I keep my motivation levels high 
enough (I'm trying to shake a flu/virus thing and am a tad whipped).

Also, picked up a complete IBM PS/2 E system for $10.00 (I mean complete 
down to manuals, setup disks and a Panasonic Color DM printer).  It came 
with PC-DOS 6.03 & Win 3.1.  I upgraded from 4M RAM to 12M (boy are PS/2 
systems picky on what RAM they'll use).  It doesn't have a lot of room 
left on it's 120M 2 1/2" laptop HD, but I have a good 170M 2 1/2" HD and 
a dead EZBook 486 laptop with a 384M HD I can swap in.  After I do that 
I'm going to install OS/2 (either V2.1 or V3) and get GEM going there. 
Keep you all posted.
-- 
Davey Brain
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