               JANUARY 1999 ADAM NEWS NETWORK DISK             

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First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR and WELCOME to 1999! ..the last full
year in the century of the ADAM's birth.  I feel quite confident
that the makers of ANY of the early computers; and especially the
Coleco crowd-after discontinueing the ADAM; ever dreamed that the
products they produced would ever last or be operable into the 
next century.  BUT here we are with our ADAM, and from what I am 
seeing in the market place on EBAY Internet Auctions, the ADAM is
rising in price and apparently in desireablility.  So hang onto
your baby and use it !!!  This year brings our first ADAM computer
convention on the west coast - and an added bonus of being in the
northwest US/Canada area, renowned for its beauty and climate.  In
this issue we have one of the first reports from the ADAMCON 11
chairman.  So, start early on planning to attend this convention!

We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas card issues (2) of December,
and start off the new year with a lot of catch up correspondence
from December, along with a PD donation from L&G Software (Gene
Welch).

Alphabet      From the archives, a "fix" for an alphabetizer
              program in SmatrBASIC - includes the program.

AC11          This is the first report on the progress of ADAMCON
              11 slated for summer 1999 in Vancouver/Seattle area

Burns2        From John Burns archives, some advice on putting
              new ribbons in the printer and keeping ADAM clean

Clee1         From Rich Clee, how to get onto the Delphi internet
              chat with your ibm clone.  Every Wed eve @ 9PM EST.

Clee2         Rich needs your help!  Anybody who knows ANYTHING
              about repair to the Micro Innovations disk drives,
              is asked to help Rich out with a problem with a
              360k finicky drive.

Clee3         Geoff Oltmans eplies to Rich with an idea.......

D&B           From Ron Mitchell....."Of DOS and Browsers and 
              Problems we Never had with ADAM"

DepotBBS      Another former ADAMite has surfaced!!!  Check it 
              out!

FIDO          Ron Mitchell writes of then FIDOnet network and
              the connection we have to it - The Neverending BBS

Geoff1        Geoff solves a problem with his ADAM and which 
              could very possibly effect yours.

Geoff2        Another ADAMite comments on what appeared at first
              glance to be an abnormal ADAM that Geoff had.

GuyB1&3       Guy Bona is tinkering with the ADAM emulator and
              submits an ibm program to help make your "virtual"
              disks on the ibm emulator.

PONG          For the TDOS crowd, this is an .img file which you
              will have to clone over to an EOS disk before using
              it.  For the EOS crowd, it is self booting on the
              disk; and ALL the text files listed here follow it.

Readme        This file.

RichD#1       Rich Drushel explains some of the technicalities
              of ADAMserv and it's access program.

Ron#1         Ron Mitchell asks the questions that prompt the 
              reply above from Rich Drushel.

Ron#3         Ron relates his dilemma to Rich Clee.

Ron$5         Ron explains some emulator questions with Geoff
              Oltmans.

Staff         The ADAM NEWS NETWORK staff - it could be YOU!!

Sounds        These are 4 sound files in SmartBASIC which simulate
              #1 - machinge gun; #2 - spring recoil; #3 - falling
              death; #4 - machinery noise.  For you TDOS users, 
              this is an image file.  Use Clone21 to port over to
              the EOS format.  They are in 1 image file, which  
              contains a directory and the 4 files.

Subscrib      HOW to subscribe to the monthly disk at the door!

Websites      Ron gives us his special website locations for 
              Canada.  Better check some of them out!
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