[GEM Development] Ventura Publisher again

[Thomas Clayton]

DAvey:

If you think they're 'picky' about RAM wait thill you try swapping a
HDD! Oh, is that what you're thinking of trying? Advice. Don't. It just
may be that like some PS/2 desktops they have a PROPRIETORY interface.
For example, there is IDE and then there is IBM IDE!!! ... and then
there is IBM 8-bit IDE. I know I've got one in my PS/2 25-286. 

Davey Brain wrote:
> 
> 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
> dsbrain at NOSPAM!neosplice.com or
> dsbrain2001 at yahoo.NOSPAM!com
> 
> "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth" - John F.
> Kennedy
> 
> Gigabyte 7VKML AMD Athlon 1700XP+ Savage 4 AGP 4X 32M
> This eCS-OS/2 system uptime is 1 days 11 hrs 51 mins and 27 secs
> 
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Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton
tfcc at rcn.com