Legacy
The Adam weakened Coleco by absorbing much of the money it had made from Cabbage Patch Kids; the company filed for bankruptcy in 1988.
A group of Adam enthusiasts gather every year at the annual AdamCon. The 22nd AdamCon was held June 18–20, 2010 in Montreal, Canada. The 23rd AdamCon (AdamCon23) was held in Grand Rapids, MI from July 14 thru July 17, 2011. The 24th AdamCon was held July 13–15, 2012 in Québec, Canada.
Third party developers contributed to the overall success of the ADAM after Coleco abandoned the ADAM. Developers such as Orphanware, In House Reps, Thomas Electronics, Oasis Pensive, Eve, E&T, Micro Innovations, Microfox Technologies and others added multiple density disk drives, memory expanders, speech synthesizers, serial cards, printer cards, IDE cards and other hardware so the ADAM could follow other computers into a newer modern age. In 2012, we still have most if not all of this hardware still available to upgrade the ADAM.
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