Coleco Adam

[Naton]

Hi, forgive me if this has been discussed to death, but although having heard a lot about the Coleco Adam and its various short comings, until now I hadn't actually seen one.. And is it me, but does it look a lot like An A2000 ran into an A1000 and fell two years back in time?

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The faceplate's the shape of an A1000's, it has two ports on the right hand side in the same spot as its DB-9 ports, and those vents on the front are the same as on an A1060. It has the A2000's color scheme, the base curves inwards in a similar way and again the vents are similar but on the left.

Am I looking too much into it? :-)

[ajlwalker]

To me the floppy looks similar to Commodore ones.

Also the spacebar on the keyboard id identical to the C64 in shape.  I bet the keyboard came from the same factory.

[weirdami]

no

[DonnyEMU]

The A1000's faceplate was a lot smaller than the ADAM or the a2000. I remember this beast quite well and the infamous tape drive system it used. It was a Z80 based system running CP/M on a very proprietary tape drive system.

The A2000 had a more brown color scheme than the Atom which looked more like the stylings of an IBM XT/AT or a PCJr.. See the picture below..

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Those three looking similar as in being desktop cases, yes, but considering the rest, no.
I don't know whether you know it or not, but most homecomputers in the 80s were either desktops or computer-in-keyboard (is there a name for that?)

[trekiej]

The molds that the plastic comes out of has beveled sides. It needs to be beveled for removal, at least a few degrees.
Why white and beige color, I do not know.

[SamuraiCrow]

IIRC there was an expansion box for the ColecoVision game system that would make it into a full-fledged Adam computer.