[GEM Development] [Fwd: How can be updated the OpenGEM background Desktop with an image?]

[Peter R Green]

I don't know where Finnland came in in my thoughts -- it's a long time ago.

Robert Avis was my first point of contact with GEM development. I had 
been given a 386 box -- full tower, space for about 6 drives -- and had 
it running quite happily with DOS, but wanted a decent GUI for it. 
Someone else gave me a set of GEM disks from an Amstrad, and I found 
Robert while searching for more information on what GEM was about.

I have a sense that he lived somewhere near Tunbridge, and I sent him 
the sets of files from the GEM disks, which he posted on his site. From 
there, he put me in touch with Ben and John and GEM development.

I'd used ViewMAX earlier as a file manager in DOS 5 and in OS/2 Warp, 
but was vague about how GEM and ViewMAX were related.

That's about it.

Peter

Gene Buckle wrote:
>> I thought only the other day, "GEM seems to have come to an end."
>>
>> I remembered the heady days, before Owen and Emma Bunton, before The
>> Strange Disappearance of Robert Avis, before that nice chap from
>> Finnland or wherever died (Tim Olmsted rings a bell...) Those were the days.
>>
>>     
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> Tim was from Texas if memory serves.  He was a really nice guy.
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> Who was Robert Avis?  I don't remember him.
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> Something tells me Owen isn't pining for Emma these days. *grin*
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> g.
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