Osgeld

found a couple noac's a power joy and a super joy 3, no accessories just the main units and dirty as crap, only paid a buck for each

per IMO if everything is in perfect condition and verified working

when its just not a video game unless it smells like bowling shoe spay, cheep beer, tobacco smoke, and most of the light comes from the machines

I think you missed the point, as flawed as the other machines were they did not come out of the box erasing tapes and burning out their power supplies, at best the first adams were engineering samples that functioned and thus produced in a hurry to meet deadlines. yes it takes time for systems to be perfected cause you can never tell whats going to happen when you mass produce the things, 2 samples on the bench does not expose a 10ppm error, a years worth of testing may start catching bugs then revisions follow, but it was clearly not even that well advanced before it hit the line to consumers. over all its a poorly designed machine, could anyone do better? heck yea, can anyone do better in the time frame allotted even with CV experience? Heck no, thats poor management. by the time adam came out there was almost a decade of z80 computers on the market and coleco had a handful of years making a sucessful machine, the adam was just super rushed and it failed due to its early stages ... which along with other machines (that didnt make the folklore) nearly crashed the pc market just about a year later than the console market. would it have mattered if it came out later, NO in 84 you had the mac unleashed, shortly thereafter 16 bit atari's and amiga's ... if it came out later it was stillborn, it was practically dead in the water when it came out compared to other machines. I love the CV but man the adam had so little to offer for what problems it presents AS a computer and not just an expanded video game with a printer.

not that you were talking to me, my dev setup is a emulator most of the time or my apple IIc which is equivlant to a //e plat, mouse card 80 column and double high res, working on a stand alone device for a virtual serial drive

if I were to bid 10-15$ shipped, ebay prices, with rare vintage 30 ish

yea but they didnt have the habbit of erasing media, failed core peripherals, jacked up springs, or catching fire directly out of the box

there is a difference between a quality pin, and one made from whatever metal melted down in some back alley strip mall shop

theres other problems, I have 3 first hand accounts of plugging in the adam for the first time and the printer going up in smoke, 2 occasions where a new adam out of the box had spring issues on the cassette drives, and you had to fiddle with them does this stuff still happen, heck yea, at best the adam was released as a product while still in its engineering design phases... and that is a poor management / marketing phase did the video game crash help the rush to send a machine out that had not been fully debugged? yea ... but the computer crash started happening a later... its the poor quality of manufacturing and testing that particularly belongs to the adam that caused the slowdown in silicon valley during 85. without a billion and one incompatible crap rushed cash cow machines, it would not have happened, adam was one

@ wood (hehe) I think you need to recheck your histroy, by 1985 it was very possible, but stupid expensive to have a pc compatible with a 32 bit 80386, EGA was a year old giving 64 colors at 640×350 while running all of the serious PC applications (yea great some systems had Turrican, but ...) by 85 its a software issue, the 5150 IBM PC was 4 years old by then and while apple, amiga and tandy were busy switching out software compatibility, there was the rock solid IBM standard, its so darn rock standard, for better or worse, YOU CAN boot and run MSDOS on a brand new i7 if you dont mind a limited ram, and IDE only hard disk support here in 2013 no one else in histroy has made something so standard, the only other non clone survivor today is Apple, and they are not even compatible with themselves 9 years later, which is the 3rd time they have broken compatibility. why is the PC standard so popular ... cause I can run software written in 1990 at work on a pentium 4 laptop thats beat to hell, along with office 2010, and firefox 20 ( not that that is my main work laptop) or I can write software that runs on a 66mhz 486 or a core2 duo without a change it may be a ghetto radio shack parts platform, it may be the devil between MS and IBM domination, but dang, you cant do that with any other platform

I think the pc platform already won years before MCA I tend to not think about it so much as IBM PC was a stellar hit, its was indeed the clones and a settling on a platform, IBM was the rock in a very violent sea, IBM did have a pretty spartan but powerful machine (4.7 Mhz 16 bit cpu with oodles of ram for the time, when most machines were 1mhz or 4mhz 8 bit machines restricted to 64k without doing some hacky bank switching)

small businesses often leave a bad taste in my mouth... just recently I went to the locally owned hardware store at 3pm on a saturday to be greeted with a lady locking up, obviously they dont need my money so I went to lowes, spent 100 bucks oh well I tried

PM me a zip code please

I used to have a toshiba like you discribed, and if memory serves me correct I had to use the menu to set video to svideo rather than composite

LOL I still do that

slither course the roller controller I got with it was borked, once I fixed it (years later after some electronics in high school) it was a rather fun not quite centipede game PS I love tapper, course the only version I played was the CV version until the early 2000's when I got into mame

oh xbox controllers, the only one I have left (besides my logitech wireless and the usb modded one I use on my computer and XBOX) is a dark metallic blue one, trigger springs are a tad clicky, you can have that for the price to mail it also have a PS1 non dual shock, non analog neon orange controller if you are interested

may still do it, just cause I wanna play chinatown wars

using an arcade stick does not feel right until you let a cigarette burn though the edge

its 2013, my cellphone from 8 years ago has a camera, I bought my first digital camera in the late 90's for less than 60 bucks, radio crack has crappy camera's for 15 bucks on clearance, 4.99 you can get a disposable DIGITAL camera from any drug store, I call BS on your theory, its not been hard to get an image to a computer for almost 20 years now

yea, but I dont have any systems at the moment except for an XBOX 1 (which I never play) and a Wii, let me see whats up with this PSP and get some photos, off the top of my head it needs a new analog stick (or this one cleaned out) and it has a extended battery which does not charge anymore ... no clue if I have the original battery door, it may be at my parents

I have a psp2000, but its a little beat up, and technically bricked atm (not really I just goofed up something on the memory stick) and maybe a few XBOX 1 controllers I have not modded to USB yet

looks like it does a nice job, better than my ghetto converter and easier to use too bill buckels has been doing a handful of converters for the Aztec C suite in dos, which does a good job but its quite fiddly, they do GR, DGR, HGR, DHGR,

post code plz

it should be noted that SSR's are just prewired fets in a plastic case