Coleco & Atari

[Zane Healy]

> 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