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Coleco Adam

The Coleco Adam

I must have been 12 or 13 at the time, but even then I noticed the quirks of the Adam. Booting directly to a word processor seemed odd to me. The power supply and switch for the whole computer built into the printer?? What if I wanted a new/better printer, …

A Little Backstory… My First Computers

Here’s a little backstory. My first computer was a Commodore 64 – loved it, but a disk drive was not in the budget at the time. I remember the hours spent typing in programs from magazines, the pain of finding mistakes when the program didn’t run properly, and the joy …