From: Kevin Maier  (INTERNET:ummaier1@cc.UManitoba.CA)
Subj: ADAM stuff

Have some excess ADAM equipment for sale to a good home.

ADAM console: $10
SmartWriter Printer: $10
Keyboards: $5
Joysticks: $2

US funds plus shipping from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

                                                - Kevin

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From:  INTERNET:ummaier1@cc.UManitoba.CA
Subj:  Re: Success!
To: Geoff Oltmans <geoff@sprynet.com>

I noticed that even ADAM's JOYSTICKS come with the ferrite 
"magnets" around the cable to reduce interference. Now I can 
understand putting those around, say, monitor cables, but on a 
JOYSTICK cable?   Seriously, how sensitive are those to inter-
ference?   And even if every once in a while, your spaceship or 
whatever shoots when it wasn't supposed to, so what? Seems like 
Coleco went overboard on this one. 
                                                - Kevin

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From: Ena Greenshields <bu015@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Message from Internet

I won't see Dale til the next meeting at the end of May. I hope
he has good news re our hard drives!  ED NOTE: (Dale took a trip 
out to Colorado to see Mark Gordon last spring)

BTW now that I can receive graphics on this fee-for-service ISP
(I'm getting a free ride at my better half's expense), I'm 
curious to see the excellent AC9 photos. Perhaps when you have 
time you can send them to me ...??? No hurry,, of course.  We're
sort of laid-back here in Canada.  Maybe its something to do 
with being in the frozen north :-).    Ena

EDITOR'S NOTE:  Here is a lady who wants to use those ADAMCON 09
photo's for the MTAG newsletter.  IF you have some, attach them
to an email and send them to her! 

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From: David Smith <dwsrrs@ttlc.net>
Subject: For Sale - ADAM plug in

Hello Everyone,
When I was a kid, we had a ColecoVision with an ADAM
hookup.  Now, my mother is looking to sell the ADAM portion
of the system.  There are also a few software items, but now
I forget what.  I am sure she would include all the ADAM
specific stuff with it.  She wants to keep the ColecoVision
and the games though.  She still likes that part.  So if you
have a ColecoVision and always wanted an ADAM hookup or if
you had one that broke and wanted to replace it, here is
your chance?

Make an offer!  (I am sure no reasonable offer will be
refused)
I will leave another e-mail here when it is sold.

Thank you all!
David
dwsrrs@ttlc.net

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From: Geoff Oltmans <geoff@sprynet.com>
Subject: Goliath

Okay...remember a while back I mentioned that I had seen somewhere
information regarding an ADAM clone called Goliath? Well, I found
the article. It appears in the AIM newsletter from May 1989. It 
says the following:

"What we have learned is that Coleco contracted with MPI (the
maker of the disk drive mechanics) to develop many such devices
for ADAM and the next generation ADAM, called Goliath. The main 
board was a language card which inserted into Slot #2 and con-
tained ports for expansion, including both an 80column and hard 
disk drive controller cards. Howard Eagleston wrote most of the 
Operating System changes (contained in EPROMS) that allowed 
these devices to work in ADAM! In addition, the first thing to
happen when ADAM or Goliath were turned on was a survey of this
port for the presence of the language card which when found asked 
the user whether the ADAM printer or a parallel printer were 
desired for use!   Whether all the bugs were corrected before 
Coleco backed up on support of ADAM and Goliath we can't say, 
but from Alan's [Neely] findings it appears that success was 
achieved for the hard disk! 
"Goliath was fully developed! An overseas company purchased the
rights and it was marketed (see picture and description herein). 
It also allowed compatibility with ADAM, but required the 
language card in slot #2 to use other devices. Language cards 
are used overseas where Goliath can currently be found. The 
screen display is presented in forty columns, not 80. 80 column 
expansion is said to be available, however!
Goliath was to use a new prototype 3 1/4" drive, too, but the
European version uses 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" Drives and cassette 
player. Other features: voice chip, expandable to 512k RAM, 
RS232 interfacing, clock card, and Mouse! It also will operate 
on either 120 or 220 AC 60hz. WOW!

"So why was Goliath never marketed in the USA? Is it still
available for sale in Europe? Was the prive too high to compete
with IBM clones? Did the need for a language card prohibit use 
in the USA? We don't know, but we have been trying for some 
time to gain more substantial information without success. But 
we can substantiate that some Honeywell Service Centers in the 
USA had at least 80 column cards similar to these mentioned 
here, but due to licensing agreements will REFUSE to admit
ANYTHING! And for the same licensing reasoning other refuse to
touth the development of these devices or prototypes for use or 
marketing here in the USA. And still, Coleco will offer no help 
to the ADAM Community in search of such development or 
manufacture."

So there you have it! The picture published looks like a machine,
about the size of a Sinclair Spectrum computer (only taller), 
with a keyboard in the console (the same 5 function keys instead 
of six (however it looks as though they can be shifted for a 
total of 10 function keys).  There are two keys next to the right
of the space bar (as is the case when you remove the top plastic 
from the ADAM keyboard), and the cursor keys are in a strange 
layout. The up and down keys are twice as large as the left/right
keys which lie between up/down. It claims that there is a voice 
chip, and that is comes with a game called Arctic Adventure
(Antarctic Adventure?). It has a cart slot on the top left of the
machine.

Does anyone have any current information about this machine? Or 
is it simply vaporware?

*Geoff!*

EDITOR'S NOTE: I looked up the article Geoff mentioned, and yes,
there is Goliath in black and white looking a little like an 
early Apple one piece'r or TI machine.  The spec sheet by the
picture appears to be in spanish.  It would be interesting to 
know IF (big word....) this computer exists, IF it works the
same way as the ADAM, and IF we could get one to see at the
next ADAMCON.......hmmm.......

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