Re: Coleco & Atari

[Ethan O'Toole via cctalk]

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) ?


  - Ethan

Re: Coleco & Atari

[Zane Healy via cctalk]

> On Oct 27, 2019, at 6:34 AM, Murray McCullough via cctalk 
>  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

Coleco & Atari

[Murray McCullough via cctalk]

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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