Coleco Adam
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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
Coleco Adam
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
Daisy wheel printing
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Daisy wheel printing is an impact printing technology invented in 1970 by Andrew Gabor at Diablo Data Systems. It uses interchangeable pre-formed type elements, each with typically 96 glyphs, to gener
Coleco Adam
…in October 1983 with the initial price of $700, complete with 64 KB of memory, a tape drive for a proprietary medium called Digital Data Packs, a daisy wheel printer, and productivity applications, along with two DDPs for SmartBASIC and Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom Super Game. The Adam was an attempt to follow on the…
Metal daisy wheel for Xerox & Diablo printers
Plastic daisy wheel for Qume printers
Samples of daisy wheel printer output.
The Royal LetterMaster, a budget daisy-wheel printer from the 1980s