30 Oct
2019
30 Oct
'19
3:51 p.m.
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From: "Ethan O'Toole" <ethan at 757.org>
To: Murray McCullough <c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com>, "General
Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:11:49 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Coleco & Atari
The ADAM was a well-designed system with a great set of launch software
hobbled by a rollout/gamble for the Christmas buying season that didn't pay
off. If they had a proper release to work out the manufacturing issues they
would have been a lot more successful I think. Nevertheless, any system in
the wild you come across should work just as well as any other vintage
machine by this time. It's my favorite machine pre-Amiga/ST/IIgs/Mac.
old? 1983. Coleco ADAM, my favourite, and Atari
600XL, not so much. I
still
have my ADAM. No not why. But isn?t this why we
all belong to
classiccomp. And
$600. How quaint! BTW(sorry), it had an update on
CP/M called CP/M Plus.
Gosh, I miss those old days.
Oh man, the Atari 8bit is second to the Adam? IIRC the 800XL and Floppy
Drive cost less than the Coleco Adam kit. You didn't get a daisy wheel
printer, but you got better sound and a much larger library.
I grew up on the ColecoVision, neighbor had the Atari 5200. I used to say
the ColecoVision was better when younger but now I have to say I think the
Atari 5200 is better.
Have yet to own an Adam, but I always thought of the Adam as something of
a failure? There was a large number of them that shipped DOA or close to
DOA as well due to power supply issue (in the printer) ?