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From: geoffs@brl-tgr.ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn )
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.rumor
Subject: Re: Coleco ADAM
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 08:28:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 08:28:53 1985
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In article <282@teklds.UUCP> davidh8@teklds.UUCP (David Haight) writes:
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>	I am the (un)fortunate owner of a Coleco ADAM.

 ( Me too)

>	....  Does anyone
>	know a source for schematics and/or documentation
>	on the internal micro-code?
>
 As far as I've heard and read, Coleco was (is?) very hush-hush as to
giving out memory maps, disassembled code,...etc.

	{As I recall, under a very strict licensing agreement
	they supposedly would loan the info to third party 
	developers; with the stipulation that *any* software
	developed which Coleco thought was not of market 
	quality (or some such vague term), could be confiscated
	by Coleco. And at any time they could revoke the license.}

I think there were (are?) at least two reasons for this:

	1. To hogg as much of the software market as they could.

	2. To protect their video game's internals too - since it must be
	   a subset of the whole Adam.

They didn't learn from Texas Instr.
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(my opinions only)