The
Adam was a
computer from
CollecoVision. It was released somewhere in the early to mid eighties. While I can't vouch as too wether all of the systems were the same, mine still makes me get all misty-eyed. It used
cassette tapes for storage and had no internal
hard drive. I plugged into a
television for output and had a
printer. The
interesting thing was that you couldn't run the computer without the printer as that's where the
power cord was attached!
It had a slot for
game cartriges like the ones on the
Atari game systems.
It had no
operating system in the general sense. When you
booted up it loaded a
word processor that looked just like a
typewriter. If you wanted to load something else, you put the tape in the
drive and then
reset the system. It would take a
ludicrously long time to boot, but eventually you got to play
Buck Rogers or
Carnival or run
SmartBASIC or whatever else you had
kicking around.
I wrote
my first program on it when I was eight years old, and I've been having a blast
programming ever since!