<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">nice to see the list active again</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Cyprian</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 at 07:58, TopCatDRC <<a href="mailto:TopCatDRC@yahoo.com">TopCatDRC@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">First and foremost,receiving this message. means The List is /still/ in <br>
existence and functions. :-)<br>
<br>
Hi All !<br>
<br>
A year(+?) ago [April 2024, yep, definitely PLUS], Armand Colleye and I <br>
exchanged some off-list letters about DR-GEM Scan which he had a <br>
/Deustch/ copy of and sent me. So I finally had gotten A copy to examine.<br>
<br>
In May, I started going through boxes in my storage unit (needing to <br>
down size) and found one, plus part of another, with my DR-GEM material <br>
and the other DR-DOS and their other Op. Sys.es. I found I'd made - <br>
decades ago - lists of the diskettes and often, serial numbers, not the <br>
actual 'products' (names) per say. I thought of sending this list-serv a <br>
copy of them. They're hand-written. I have scanned them. My memory says <br>
'attachments not allowed'. Is it correct?<br>
<br>
Planning upon culling and/or discarding (mostly the latter). There was <br>
to be two to months ahead (May/June) time to sort thru it all. As it is, <br>
interruptions took place for months, about two weeks till Vintage <br>
Computer Fest- MidWest (<a href="https://www.vcfmw.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.vcfmw.org/</a>) when, EITHER the <br>
Computer History Museum (<a href="https://computerhistory.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://computerhistory.org/</a>) will take 'em OR <br>
(forgot other org.s name) OR they'll be DISCARDed.<br>
<br>
Most appear to have an existence at <a href="http://bitsavers.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bitsavers.org</a> or The Internet <br>
Archive. The font 'products' are exceptions. Likely some other auxiliary <br>
items are exceptions, as well. (programming / language related)<br>
<br>
Armand asked me, "Do you know who has GEM Pascal 1.72?".<br>
Armand, I definitely looked-for it among my items and did not find any <br>
Pascal.<br>
<br>
John and Gene, (one or both of you), had interest in actual early VGA <br>
cards. I do have a 'set' of those with various chip sets. Any specific <br>
one(s) still interest you? (All of them?) Have some driver diskettes for <br>
them (some where), too.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Thomas Clayton<br>
<br>
<br>
On 8/30/2025 6:02 PM, John Elliott wrote:<br>
> Stumbled on this while looking for something else: a paragraph of news <br>
> from Popular Computing Weekly 1986-12-11:<br>
><br>
> > DR predicts Gem on a chip<br>
> ><br>
> > Digital Research is hailing the arrival of the Intel 82786 chip next <br>
> spring as the saving of the PC standard. The IBM machine has <br>
> traditionally fared badly against the likes of the Apple Macintosh <br>
> because of its poor graphics handling, but the new chip, which DR says <br>
> will initially be available as an upgrade card for PCs and <br>
> compatibles, is set to change that.<br>
> > The 82786 contains an internal graphic processor subsystem and a <br>
> display processor as well as a dynamic Ram video memory controller. DR <br>
> is launching Gem 786 to take partial advantage of the new chip by <br>
> running Gem faster, but the company predicts that graphic systems like <br>
> Gem will be built into the new chip in future.<br>
> > This plus the new chip will allow PCs to run graphics systems <br>
> faster, and to use far higher resolution monitors for the likes of <br>
> design and desktop publishing applications.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/popular-computing-weekly/50/5/1986/12/11#6" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/popular-computing-weekly/50/5/1986/12/11#6</a> <br>
><br>
><br>
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