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Coleco Adam

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The Coleco Adam was a home computer and Coleco's follow-up to their successful ColecoVision video game console. Announced at Summer CES in June 1983, Coleco executives predicted sales of 500 000 by Christmas that year. Due to early production problems, only a small number of units shipped that year, preventing Coleco from meeting their sales expectations and from taking advantage of the video game market crash of 1983. From the time it was introduced to the time it was shipped, the Adam's price had also increased from US$575 to US$725. The Adam's software library was quite large from the beginning - being derived from and compatible with the ColecoVision's software and accessories. The popular CP/M operating system was also available for the Adam. The Adam came complete with a 64K RAM computer, Digital Data P

Specifications

Ram
64K (128K optional)
Sound
Texas Instruments SN76489AN; 3 tone channels, 1 noise
Cpu Speed
3.58 MHz
Video Ram
16K (8x4116)

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