I can sympathize. I have been working really hard to rebuild the cast of computers I had growing up. The only major thing I am missing now is an Amstrad PC1512.

I never saw the GEM GUI first hand. What would you compare it to?
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I was in elementary school when introduced to it and 4th grade when it was handed down to me. The only to which I could compare it was my uncle's Macs. To me who had been using a CoCo2 until then, it was amazing. It was a CGA computer but like the Tandy 1000 also had a special graphics mode with more colors... There were some really cool pictures that came with it in GEM Paint I found amazing. It ran in DR-DOS (came with both MS-DOS and DR-DOS), and DR was the only one that would recognize my hard card when I got it (MS-DOS 5 solved that). So with the CGA it was far better graphically than DOS SHELL or Windows 1/2 and better than 3 on CGA... not VGA... but once you got to VGA, Windows was definitely getting to be the GUI for PCs for better or for worse. There may have been later versions of GEM that kept up, butthe version I had from '86 or so was beautiful for its time.

... Those that have the firepower make the rules.

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