Subj : Re: Coleco??
To   : Static
From : Geri Atricks
Date : Tue Nov 05 2019 08:47:33

 St>  GA> As well as a PC, the Coleco Adam.
 St>  GA> 
 St>  GA> Was actually a pretty decent machine for the time except for one majo
 St>  GA> faux pas on their design part. It had the power supply in the printer
 St>  GA> so if your printer went down then your whole system was down until yo
 St>  GA> could get your printer either repaired or replaced.
 St> 
 St> You also had to remember not to leave any datapacks in or too close to
 St> the machine because it had a habit of scrambling tapes as it's switched
 St> on.

hmm, don't remember it having that problem. Wonder if that was maybe just an
issue with a certain production run. They may have gotten a bad batch of tape
drives.
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-Dallas Vinson (AKA: Geri Atricks, Lupine Furmen)

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