It’s Alive! This Coleco Adam is a survivor. Boots up fine. Cartridge port works. Cassette works. Even the old ribbon has some life in it. Super happy. Should make things easier when I want to use an Adam. Next integrate an ADE.
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Sadness. Well after a couple of hours ON and playing with the Coleco ADAM it froze and now resets to black screen and constant tone. Guess I’m tearing into this ADAM after all.
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The Coleco Adam is fixed – Finally! Wasn’t the usual culprits for the black screen but a 74LS245 in U27 that went bad. A donor from an old graphics card and we’re back in business.
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Picked up another Coleco Adam. This time a standalone model as opposed to the expansion module version. Should make life easier to setup when I need it. Now let’s see what I’m working with.
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“Memory Console” on the Coleco Adam looks good. Dirty but clean inside. Interesting to see all the heat sinks they added as compared to my expansion module version. I’m betting this Adam is a survivor.
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Dirty and dusty but all there. The printer/PSU for the Coleco Adam is working and the power rails on the connector to the CPU looks good.
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