Back when I was getting older issues of Computer Shopper, I read about
the Adam in a regular column, seems the users group support was pretty
strong for the bugger, they had several conventions over the years (I
noticed their web page not too long ago.)
The Adam did have some expansion beyond the second datadrive you could
get a disk drive controller to hook in an external drive.
I recall a warning about the datadrives or the Adam in general: don't
turn on the Adam with a datatape in the drive, the drive will send out a
pulse that may damage data stored on the part of the tape next to the
write head (some said up to a few feet away, I don't know about
that...:/ )
The datadrives can use cassette tapes but they need to have slight
(housing) modifications done and be pre-formatted (a tape duplicator may
do the job, though I bet there are formatting utilities on the Internet.
All I have for the Adam now is some xerox catalog of PD software, it
was cheap and I like to know what programs were on the other machines,
to see if there any gaps to be filled for my collection. :)
Larry Anderson
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Received on Mon Dec 22 1997 - 20:14:34 GMT