27 Oct
2019
27 Oct
'19
6:34 a.m.
I came across an old copy of Popular Science on yesterday, forthwith I know
not how, that had a story of two vintage/old/retro/classic-computers. How
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.
Happy computing all.
Murray ?
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27 Oct
27 Oct
7:46 a.m.
On Oct 27, 2019, at 6:34 AM, Murray McCullough via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I came across an old copy of Popular Science on yesterday, forthwith I know
not how, that had a story of two vintage/old/retro/classic-computers. How
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.
Happy computing all.
Murray ?
I like my Coleco ADAM, but then I like my ColecoVision. What I don?t like about the ADAM
is the need to power the printer, to power the computer. End result, the ColecoVision is
setup, not the ADAM.
From what I saw last weekend at Portland Retro Game
Expo, the 8-bit Atari folks have a new motherboard that they can plug their old chips
into.
Zane
28 Oct
28 Oct
8:11 a.m.
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) ?
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