I did not know what to with all that space!
Lord, that takes me back! My first 'computer' was a build-it-yourself kit from Texas Instruments. After that was a series of Ataris; 400, 800XL, and finally the Mega-4!
The Mega-4 was actually a surprisingly capable machine, and the Gem OS was rock-solid. And if, like me and most of my friends at the time, you tended to write your own software, it could run rings around most anything else then available that wasn't a mainframe (remember those?).
(Much pointless rambling of days-gone-by edited out by poster after deciding nobody here needs that much boredom)
Ah, memories!
--OB
OldBob said: the Gem OS
Hey Bob, I was running Gem on the first 386 I bought, there was some great text manipulation software for it!
BTW this thread is for some nostalgic rambling
Quote Can anyone say, Xerox Ventura running on the GEM extension to DOS? That was actually the first piece of software I purchased for my then new computer in 1989.
Yep that was the one Mike, remember embedding all your codes in the text file before you opened it in Ventura and then taking your files to the Linotronic and copying them to LPT1 from your floppy disk to get your bromides for paste up?
Chris Wills said: Quote Can anyone say, Xerox Ventura running on the GEM extension to DOS? That was actually the first piece of software I purchased for my then new computer in 1989. Yep that was the one Mike, remember embedding all your codes in the text file before you opened it in Ventura and then taking your files to the Linotronic and copying them to LPT1 from your floppy disk to get your bromides for paste up?
Hi Chris--I actually was using databases to get text into VP before DatabasePublisher.
VP tagged text is roughly equivalent to both QXP's and ID's tagged text today. Easy to write routines to add appropriate tags to an exported database. That's one half of what my business was all about. That and writing software/hardware manuals. I was mostly glad when Corel bought VP. I wish they hadn't killed it. But hey, it wasn't my call and for some darn reason they didn't ask me my opinion...
I had two go-to vector drawing applications, both from Canadian companies. One was CD. Care to guess who the other company and their software was?
MikeWe said:-I actually was using databases to get text into VP before DatabasePublishe
DB's way over my head. We were using it to replace having to go to typesetting bureaus for our galleys. Who was the other canadian Coy?
Linky should go to a PC Mag page...
http://tinyurl.com/nqvb3cx
It was a long URL, made tiny.
Pages and great layer control before CD, linked text, hyphenation, kerning and other typographical control. Used it a lot...still got the original floppies from the first version and the 3.5" diskettes from version 2. And it was fast.
MikeWe said:Pages and great layer control before CD, linked text, hyphenation, kerning and other typographical control. Used it a lot...still got the original floppies from the first version and the 3.5" diskettes from version 2. And it was fast.
I think I remember seeing a demo but never used it. there was a lot of software around then that had great features!