Coleco Adam name?

Martin Goldberg wrote: That's interesting because the magazines I've seen didn't use "ADAM" even in their announcements. For example, here's the first paragraph of the article "Coleco introduces Adam system at SCES" by Scott Mace from the June 27, 1983 issue of InfoWorld: "Coleco grabbed center stage at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show with the Adam, a personal-computer system that includes a letter-quality printer, 80K RAM, a tape drive and word processor in ROM. The system costs less than $600." Despite Coleco's promise that it "would ship the Adam to stores in August" that article pointed out some problems that were already apparent: "The Coleco press conference, held at the Chicago Art Institute, was an overly flashy, expensive, multimedia presentation. Company officials gave a few brief product demonstrations but were hesitant to give any in-depth demonstrations. Obviously, the Adam is not totally ready for the market at this point." -- Matthew Reed http://www.trs-80.org mkr at trs-80.org