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Subject: Re: Much information about ADAM - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 9-Oct-83 22:10:33 EDT
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uicsl!twt    Oct  9 10:49:00 1983

Just a note of warning on mail-order catalogs of this nature:

Don't believe everything you see or hear in these catalogs. Chances are
that the photos and text for this one were actually done a few months ago,
and may or may not reflect changes that Coleco may have made to the Adam.
I have never had any contact or dealings with Markline, and do not mean 
to flame them, but it does take time for a catalog to be printed and
distributed. 

Case in point: A local retailer here has been selling the ColecoVision
ever since it was introduced, but their catalog still has pictures of 
the controllers that had a "speed roller" for use in games such as
Centipede. This style controller was never (to my knowledge) released
to the public or were any games written for it. The photo in question
was probably a pre-release version out of a press kit. This may be the
case with the Adam.


Tom Todd
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