Any DRI employees out there???

I could put you in touch with a guy I used to work with Bill O'Connell. He was the VP of Sales for SystemSoft when I worked with him. I remember him telling me about Gary Kildall (personal stuff, an account of the IBM NDA issue etc.). I believe he was trying to sell DRI GEM to Leading Edge (clone mfg) where I was working....I was very impressed with GEM compared to Windows 1.0. Comparing the two was my first project back in 1985. He left DRI to go to Phoenix Technologies. -Chandra -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Curt Vendel Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:46 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Any DRI employees out there??? I'm looking for anyone that worked at Digital Research in 83-85 that may have been part of the "Monterey Group" that ported GEM over to the Atari ST computers? I'm also looking for anyone from DRI that accompanied Gary Kildall up to Grass Valley, CA. to Cyan Engineering's labs. They were owned by Atari under Warner Comm. From what I've been told Gary Kildall and a group of DRI engineers travelled up to Grass Valley to disconnect and remove the VAX 11/730 or 750, not sure which. It was payment from Atari to DRI for the GEM porting work. I've gotten one person's account, but I need to confirm this with a 2nd witness before I can publish this onto the atarimuseum.com website as fact, thanks. Curt