16 Jan
2008
16 Jan
'08
12:27 p.m.
To make it worse, the damned power supplies in the
Adam printers are
like a small scale EMP (Electro-magnet Pulse) Generator.... any media
near it is bulk erased when you power on. To add insult to injury -
the power plug is also proprietary. I love the Adam Computers for
what they promised, but hate them for how they short changed everyone
looking forward to them when they came out. Hence the 1983(?) cover of
Videogaming & Computing Magazine that had a big red mushroom cloud with
an Adam in the middle of it with the title "Adam Bomb"
So... while we are "Adam bashing", lets not forget those lovely preformatted
cassette tapes - The system had no ability to format a tape, hence you had
to use "official adam tapes", and once they got corrupted (frequently) they
didn't work any more. Great way to sell tapes I suppose.
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