Coleco Adam
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Technical details
The Coleco Adam is one of the most infamous home computers. It had the advantages of being sold along with accessories (while most other home computers did not), has a very good printer and keyboard and is compatible with the Colecovision (Coleco's videogame system) which gave the Adam a very large software library but these are offset by the assortment of problems that made the Adam infamous: Electrical discharges generated at startup that would erase nearby tapes and tapes in the machine, difficult manuals and high rate of defective tapes.
Character details
Coleco Adam-tan appears as an orange-haired girl with dark red eyes and dressed in a frilly beige shirt with green frills, beige culottes, dress shoes and white tights. Her hair is almost always frizzled because she involuntarily generates electrical discharges. And because of that, the tape-using Vintage-tans are afraid of her and tend keep their distance. The green frills on her outfit are a reference to the Cabbage Patch logo and she even carries a Cabbage Patch doll with her as the Cabbage Patch Kids franchise is originally from Coleco. Another item she always carries with her is her printer which is also her life force as the printer is also the power supply to the Adam and if it doesn't work, the whole system does not work.
She is paranoid (having to watch after her printer/life force at all times) and difficult to understand (having the habit of mumbling a lot, and other things she says are unclear) but is very courteous. She is friends with Barbie Linux-tan and Commodore Plus/4-tan and rivals with Apple II-tan.
OSC Notes
Her rivals back in the 1980's were Commodore 64-tan, IBM PC jr-tan and the Apple-tans (the latter of which she had a serious rivalry against because the Adam was allegedly named for the biblical reference of Adam biting into the apple). Her rivalry was the strongest with Apple II-tan and the two are still rivals to this day but they both have a lot of respect for each other.
Against her competitors, she had the advantage of being highly resourceful but had a hard time and did not sell well due to her personal quirks and eccentric disposition. She felt a lot of guilt for causing tremendous losses to her company and ultimately causing its demise which happened in 1988, just 5 years after the Adam's introduction.
It was that same year in which her life completely changed, for better and worse. While she still has to live with causing her company's bankruptcy on her conscience, she also gained a cult following (referencing the Adamcon, an annual meeting of Coleco Adam users. The first meeting was in 1988) that has motivated her to keep on going.
During her years as a wanderer, she got by just fine working as a secretary and has retired to join the Binteeji Renmei in recent years.
She has suffered less hardship than most of the Vintage-tans and for that she is very grateful and willing to help the others less fortunate but is limited by her paranoia.