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A classmate in elementary school lusted after the Adam. He had a Colecovision so I guess he was a bit narrowly focused on that world. As his family moved away,

A classmate in elementary school lusted after the Adam. He had a Colecovision so I guess he was a bit narrowly focused on that world. As his family moved away, I don't know if he ever got one but years later a family friend handed one down to me. It was obsolete but I had fun taking it apart. It was a bit of a tank, which is funny considering how unreliable it was. Probably would have been wiser to keep it intact to use the daisy wheel printer for school papers instead of the lower print quality Gemini-10 dot matrix our daily use computer had.

bitwize 1y ago
> It was a bit of a tank, which is funny considering how unreliable it was. There's a Ukrainian couple who do YouTube videos about Soviet-era computers, especially PC compatibles. That's the defining characteristic of many of the featured computers: they're built like Cherno Alpha from Pacific Rim and look like they could withstand a freight train, but simultaneously flaky and failure prone. https://www.youtube.com/@ChernobylFamily https://www.youtube.com/@ChernobylFamily