Last month we published a fun article titled The Future of the Coleco ADAM.
Unfortunately, it was a bit broken.
The bulk of the article stems from a couple USENET posts from 1995 that I saved almost 30 years ago. They detail the network of enthusiasts who keep the Coleco ADAM alive and their strange subculture.
Unfortunately, they were truncated at 78 characters and oddly formatted. When I loaded everything into WordPress, it looked fine in the preview but upon publication it was, in the words of long-time LowEndBox enthusiast Susan, “very hard to read”.
I took some time and painstakingly reformatted the article, and it’s been updated. The paragraphs are still a little long by 2023 standards, but that’s the original author’s fault. However, at least there ARE paragraphs now 😄
So if you were put off by the wall of jumbled text, go and enjoy the article now!
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Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.
Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.
His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.
You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.
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