From: "gerry st.peter" <stpeterg@cadvision.com>
Subject: Re:American ADAM?? 


At 03:33 AM 4/13/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>I have a CBS Adam Expansion #3 and would like to know if I used
a U.S. printer would my system work? Or do I have to go to Radio 
Shack and buy a power converter? Also if anyone has an extra 
american Adam they would like to sell/trade let me know.
Problems with Adam boy,
Nick Gudauskas



It is difficult to tell just where some of this mail is coming
from.  Nick Gudauskas seem to have a Norther American address 
being with aol.com, but every reference to ADAM hardware seem 
to imply American or U.S as foreign. It is possible like me 
Nick is a Canadian, but in all the ADAM involvement that I have 
witnessed, no distiction arose that the ADAM was an ethnic
machine.  In fact is was produced in many other countries,
Taiwan, Korea, and the printers I seem to recall were made in 
IRELAND. Maybe it is just me that read a nationality into Nick's 
query.  Of course the prime reason he ask the questions, was to 
get some information, which only solicits more questions:

        1. What is meant by "U.S. printer".

        2. What is meant by "an extra american Adam".

1. With the assumption that an U.S. printer is a OEM parallel
printer, I will say;  you can use any printer with the ADAM, 
providing you have a RS232 card that was once made for the ADAM 
and certainly out there. There are other hard ware means of 
using anothern printer.  Even the transfer of files on disk to 
your "DOS BOX" and printing on any printer that adapts to the 
IBM clones.  I recall even more intricate means of using the ADAM
and printing boy other means, but I am not sure what your really
asking. 

2. The fact that the power supply for the ADAM is in the printer,
requires that you must have the ADAM power supply to run the ADAM
There were many Electronic Liquidators that sold the ADAM POWER 
unit (transformer) at fire sale prices $4-5.00 in the old days, 
and schemes and cases that allowed the discarding of the ADAM 
printer.  I never did use the Expansion Module, so am not sure 
how it differs from the ADAM console.  
 
Nick referenced "american ADAM" might be his discription for the
ADAM CONSOLE model, which reguires the power supply that was
originally located in the printer, with which all ADAM originally
were supplied.   And Yes that are hoards of stashed "american 
ADAM"s to be unearthed in basements and attics.  I have 4 or 5 
that I am saving for the SMITHSONIAN.   I have been out of 
communication from the ADAM circle since the local BBS quit 
carrying the ADAM ECHO, which was always a lively dialog for the 
ardent ADAMITES.  It is only after going to the INTERNET that I
discovered the faithful had a corner to resume the nostalgia.  
Thanks to Dale Wicks and some of the old "ADAMCONNERS"!!!

Nick, I am pleased to join you in returning to the ADAM
MOTHERLAND here on the Internet.  I do believe that the answers
to your questions will be answered by the subscribers to this 
forum.  Also, the hardware and software resources exist and are 
only inhibited by lack of communication, which I think this 
dialog will cure in the future.   So welcome Nick and let's 
hear the ECHO as it now exists. 

Gerry St.Peter


EDITOR NOTE:  You may have picked up on the reference to the
"foreign" ADAM.  There were ADAM's apparently produced for the 
European market that had different power supplies due to the 
different power requirements for European power; just as you 
would need different power supplies for hair dryers, etc.  I
have run across a few different references to this oddity. As
a matter of fact, there was even a "CBS ADAM" (as they are 
called) up for sale at an internet online auction recently.


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