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Subject: ADAM and Cloeco
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Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 14:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 30 14:34:00 1983
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From:  Chuck McManis <MCMANIS@usc-eclc>


Sorry, that should be Coleco.

In todays (9/30/83) Wall St. Journal, is an article on some of the problems
that Coleco has been having in getting ADAM out the door. The digital cassettes
and the software are cited as the biggest hangups. From the report the
software seemed as yet to error sensitive, that is it worked if you typed
all of the right commands exactly but an error on your part in entering
commands etc could and did cause unexpected and disastrous results on the
machine, ie loss of text or lack of printing. The article also states that
to meet their deadlines Coleco has been removing undebugged functions from
the software rather than fixing them. This would be remedied by a add on
cartridge next year that will return these features to the system, no
mention of which features got yanked. I think I will wait and see if they
get any out by christmas.

				--Chuck
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