Part 2 of Ron's Week 'n ADAM:


      Discovering Science on Your ADAM With 25 Programs
      by the Talcott Mountain Science Centre
      John Pellino, Mary Ellen Adamo, Sandra Dobrowlsky, Donald P. 
      LaSalle, Ph.D.
      TAB Books, copyright 1984
      ISBN 0-8306-0780-3
      181 pages

      Life is an adventure. Here we have adventures in Astronomy and 
      Space Science, Adventures in Earth Science, Adventures in Life 
      Science, Adventures in Mathematics and Computer Science, and 
      Adventures in Physics. The book comes complete with programs for 
      forecasting weather, measuring your weight on other planets, 
      triangulation, metric conversion, and many more. The 
      illustrations are homespun, but effective. The book is slanted 
      towards kids learning science, which is described on the first 
      page, headed "For Kids Only", as "The process of doing your best 
      with your brain to find out about the world around you. "

      The second page, headed "For Parents Only", ends with a Chinese 
      proverb:

	I hear, and I forget
	I see, and I remember.
	I do, and I understand


      'Nuff said.

      There are two other ADAM books that I used to have, one of which 
      was mentioned previously. The First Book of ADAM produced by Que 
      Publishing, used to appear quite regularly in boxes of ADAM gear 
      that appeared at my apartment doorstep. In those days, my 
      reputation was such that castoffs from afar ended up either in 
      the dumpster, or in my living room. Part of the fun was not so 
      much the computers themselves, but the 'goodies', including 
      books, that came with them.

      The other title deserves more attention. Regrettably, I gave my 
      last copy away some time ago:

      ADAMUs Companion
      authors:  Rochester and Benson (first names forgotten).

      Perhaps someone else can furnish the publisher, ISBN number and 
      a short description of this book. In Guy Cousineau's view, this 
      was the best of the commercially available books of 1984. As I 
      recall, it provided a full explanation of ADAM's sound and 
      graphics routines, along with with some rather sophisticated 
      generic BASIC routines that could be used in more than one 
      program. The book featured a complete Mail List program which, 
      as I recall had a bug that caused the ADAM tape drive to spin 
      endlessly under certain circumstances where you were attempting 
      to store revised data to tape. If I recall correctly, somebody 
      provided a fix for that  particular bug.

      At any rate, 1984 was certainly a very good year.

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