Coleco Adam name?

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote: Good point. How hard could it be? The wikipedia page for the adam has some links at the bottom to users groups. They probably have the info for that. You could probably hack together a cable to hook it up to a different printer while drawing power from an old atx power supply or something. The interface is probably a regular old serial or parallel interface, just with a proprietary cable. I doubt coleco made their own printers. I bet there's a fix for the tape drive problem as well. Did they ever make a floppy drive for the adam or did it die too quickly? I had a colecovision as a kid and played it a lot. When the adam came out, I desperately wanted one, but my parents couldn't separate the idea of a home computer from the idea of a video game console. Any computer was just something (expensive) for me to play games on, so they refused to buy one. They eventually bought a 5150 used since that was a *real* computer. And they could use it for work (I don't think they ever attempted to use it). I worked for a year and a half making minimum wage to save up enough for an amiga 500. I asked them to chip in some money for a 2000. They refused because the amiga was obviously only for games. Of course, I learned C and 68000 assembly language on that machine as well as writing countless papers. Sometimes I think I got my computer science degree in spite of my parents. Can you tell I'm bitter. ;-) brian