[GEM Development] GEM List Active

[Cyprian Konador]

nice to see the list active again


Regards
Cyprian

On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 at 07:58, TopCatDRC <TopCatDRC at yahoo.com> wrote:

> First and foremost,receiving this message. means The List is /still/ in
> existence and functions. :-)
>
> Hi All !
>
> A year(+?) ago [April 2024, yep, definitely PLUS], Armand Colleye and I
> exchanged some off-list letters about DR-GEM Scan which he had a
> /Deustch/ copy of and sent me. So I finally had gotten A copy to examine.
>
> In May, I started going through boxes in my storage unit (needing to
> down size) and found one, plus part of another, with my DR-GEM material
> and the other DR-DOS and their other Op. Sys.es. I found I'd made -
> decades ago - lists of the diskettes and often, serial numbers, not the
> actual 'products' (names) per say. I thought of sending this list-serv a
> copy of them. They're hand-written. I have scanned them. My memory says
> 'attachments not allowed'. Is it correct?
>
> Planning upon culling and/or discarding (mostly the latter). There was
> to be two to months ahead (May/June) time to sort thru it all. As it is,
> interruptions took place for months, about two weeks till Vintage
> Computer Fest- MidWest (https://www.vcfmw.org/) when, EITHER the
> Computer History Museum (https://computerhistory.org/) will take 'em OR
> (forgot other org.s name) OR they'll be DISCARDed.
>
> Most appear to have an existence at bitsavers.org or The Internet
> Archive. The font 'products' are exceptions. Likely some other auxiliary
> items are exceptions, as well. (programming / language related)
>
> Armand asked me, "Do you know who has GEM Pascal 1.72?".
> Armand, I definitely looked-for it among my items and did not find any
> Pascal.
>
> John and Gene, (one or both of you), had interest in actual early VGA
> cards. I do have a 'set' of those with various chip sets. Any specific
> one(s) still interest you? (All of them?) Have some driver diskettes for
> them (some where), too.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Thomas Clayton
>
>
> On 8/30/2025 6:02 PM, John Elliott wrote:
> > Stumbled on this while looking for something else: a paragraph of news
> > from Popular Computing Weekly 1986-12-11:
> >
> > > DR predicts Gem on a chip
> > >
> > > Digital Research is hailing the arrival of the Intel 82786 chip next
> > spring as the saving of the PC standard. The IBM machine has
> > traditionally fared badly against the likes of the Apple Macintosh
> > because of its poor graphics handling, but the new chip, which DR says
> > will initially be available as an upgrade card for PCs and
> > compatibles, is set to change that.
> > > The 82786 contains an internal graphic processor subsystem and a
> > display processor as well as a dynamic Ram video memory controller. DR
> > is launching Gem 786 to take partial advantage of the new chip by
> > running Gem faster, but the company predicts that graphic systems like
> > Gem will be built into the new chip in future.
> > > This plus the new chip will allow PCs to run graphics systems
> > faster, and to use far higher resolution monitors for the likes of
> > design and desktop publishing applications.
> >
> >
> https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/popular-computing-weekly/50/5/1986/12/11#6
> >
> >
>
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