Coleco Industries, Inc. was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as The Connecticut Leather Company. The name "COLECO" is an abbreviation derived from the company's original name.
The abandoned Coleco building in Amsterdam, New York
The ColecoVision video game console
The Coleco Adam is a home computer by American toy and video game manufacturer Coleco. It was released in October 1983 with the initial price of $700, complete with 64 KB of memory, a tape drive for a
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…where he had been working as a program developer at the time to assist in Coleco's entry into this market. Coleco's strategy was to introduce the Coleco Adam home computer, both as a stand-alone system and as an expansion module to the ColecoVision. The effort failed, in part because Adams were often unreliable…
Coleco Adam with its peripherals and software
Details of the DDP drive and tapes from the system above. A single DDP drive is installed in this machine, the drive bay on the right is empty.
The Coleco Adam, in word processing mode