History of video games/Platforms/Coleco Adam

Development
$150 million was borrowed by Coleco, with a significant portion of that funding production facilities for the Coleco Adam.

CES 1983 Incident
A demonstration of the Colecovision cartridge for Donkey Kong created an initially small but history changing dispute between Atari and Nintendo over the rights to the game, leading to the two companies failing to sign a deal which would have made Atari responsible for distribution of key Nintendo products during the 1980's.

Launch
The Coleco Adam was launched in October 1983 at a cost of $750.

Immediate Aftermath
On January 2nd, 1985 Coleco would discontinue the Adam.

Community & ADAMCon
The Coleco Adam maintained a small but dedicated fanbase, with an active community hosting ADAMcon conventions long after the discontinuation of the system. The first ADAMCON occurred in Orlando, Florida from October 7th to 10th in 1989. A convention was held as recently as 2015, when AdamCon 27 was held in the state of Michigan, USA.

Compute
The system was powered by a Zilog Z80A CPU, which was clocked at 3.58 megahertz.

A then sizable 80 kilobytes of RAM was included, though just 64 kilobytes was accessible to the user. The 64 kilobytes of user accessible RAM was still comparable to other computers of the era, such as the Commodore 64, which has 64 kilobytes of RAM in total.

Printer
The external printer was an integral part of any functioning Adam computer, as it also housed the computer power supply. The printer is noted for being very loud in operation.

Power Supply
The system was well known for generating an electromagnetic pulse when it was powered on, leading to it corrupting or erasing nearby magnetic media.