Watch this Coleco Adam home computer commercial starring Lori Loughlin (1984)

My kind of commercial.

Fun fact: The Coleco Adam was the only 8-bit machine of its era that could read tape and disk data asynchronously in the background without occupying the main Z80 CPU. Games like Buck Rogers would load the next level off of tape/disk into memory while you’re playing the current level.

It could do this because its serial bus was controlled by a separate Motorola 6801 CPU that had direct access to system memory.

It was a flawed machine with some interesting engineering, an excellent keyboard, and a few great software titles.

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