View Full Version : Free Colecovision adam setup - is it worth it? You can have.
Sylentwulf
09-08-2004, 04:32 PM
OK, Colecovision adam Memory module (looks like the main unit, I guess) Smartwriter (printer) and keyboard (heavy as hell) 1-2 cables, 7 tapes. All dirty/grubby as hell, no idea what works, looks like it could be cleaned up easy enough, but I don't want to.
Basically, is this worth ANYTHING? Does anyone want it? The tapes are all home recorded whatevers Adam tapes.
I could bring it all to NECG next month if anyone wants it, but if I bring it down there, you HAVE to take it. Anyways, lemme know :)
Atarileaf
09-08-2004, 04:34 PM
Take it. If you bring it, someone will take it off your hands. If I was going I sure would.
neuropolitique
09-08-2004, 04:43 PM
I'll take it if you don't want it. Never look a gift cart in the pins. :D
Ed Oscuro
09-08-2004, 11:07 PM
It's a Super-Colecovision, therefore, much awesome. (If I did my reading right...) the printer always humming (and if it breaks, so does the whole Adam unit) is a negative point, though.
christianscott27
09-09-2004, 01:02 AM
gawd, i saw a boxed adam at a flea this summer. NECG mainstay joe ending up buying it for $45. you could have buried a german shepard in this box, it was frigging huge. its such an albatross of gaming, maybe thats the mark of a great room of doom "i have so much room i can easily have a fully working adam ready to go". last time somebody brought a must-go adam to a trade meet it ended up in the trash truck, although this time i might be foolish enough to bring it inside and feed it some porridge. yeah so at very worst it will get a good home, its probably even to heavy for me to carry down the cellar stairs :P
junglehunter
09-09-2004, 03:00 AM
The actual weight of the complete system isn't bad but it's so bulky in size. I gave in to temptations and transported the insides first then the box with nothing in it. LOL
Querjek
09-09-2004, 06:35 AM
Well... sure, I want it, but I have a feeling that it would be too much too ship.
Take it, pull the power supply out of the printer and throw the printer away. Now you have a Colecovision that also plays ADAM tapes. Pretty cool!
ianoid
09-09-2004, 10:38 AM
Take it, pull the power supply out of the printer and throw the printer away. Now you have a Colecovision that also plays ADAM tapes. Pretty cool!
That is, if you can get the tape drives to work. They are pretty crappy with a high failure rate. I dumped a few Adam sets on a friend when I moved from Seattle.
If you can get a fully tested clean setup together, it's probably worth something. I just never can get them working completely- I've only been through around 4 in my time.
Leo_A
09-09-2004, 01:25 PM
"Take it, pull the power supply out of the printer and throw the printer away. Now you have a Colecovision that also plays ADAM tapes. Pretty cool!"
Don't do that, the printer needs to be hooked up to it for the ADAM to operate, or at least mine does. If you throw away the printer, its useless.
SegaAges
09-09-2004, 02:42 PM
well, being big means that shipping must suck. i would pay for shipping and have it sent down here, but i am not sure i am ready to handle a big ass system like that.
"Take it, pull the power supply out of the printer and throw the printer away. Now you have a Colecovision that also plays ADAM tapes. Pretty cool!"
Don't do that, the printer needs to be hooked up to it for the ADAM to operate, or at least mine does. If you throw away the printer, its useless.
That's why you pull the power supply out. So you don't need the printer anymore.
Blendo75
09-09-2004, 04:40 PM
"Take it, pull the power supply out of the printer and throw the printer away. Now you have a Colecovision that also plays ADAM tapes. Pretty cool!"
Don't do that, the printer needs to be hooked up to it for the ADAM to operate, or at least mine does. If you throw away the printer, its useless.
It's the power supply you need, not the printer itself. I'm a "proud" owner of a complete Adam system and I have not done the surgery myself but it is very tempting. I would probably use it in place of a regular Coleco if it wasnt for the damn daisywheel printer, although the printer does work OK.
Leo_A
09-09-2004, 06:27 PM
How do I do this?
Its not hooked up because that darn printer is so big.
How do I do this?
Its not hooked up because that darn printer is so big.
There's a good description in this thread over at Atari Age:
http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42750