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|+ style=font-size: larger; | '''Coleco Adam-tan'''
|tanname= Coleco Adam-tan
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|image= Colecoadam.gif
| colspan=2 style=text-align:center; | [[Image:Colecoadam.gif ]]br /
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! Original Creator:
| Aurora Borealis
|- 
! First appearance:
| 2007
|- 
! OS Personified:
| Coleco Adam
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! OS Devloper:
| Coleco
|- 
! First Released:
| 1983
|- 
! Latest Stable Release:
| ?
|}


|cname= Adam-tan
|alias= n/a
|creator= Aurora Borealis
|debut= Jul 2007


Coleco Adam-tan appears as an orange-haired girl with dark red eyes and dressed in a old-fashioned beige outfit with a dress shirt and shoes, darker beige pants and white tights. Her wavy orange hair is almost always frizzled because she involuntarily generates electrical discharges and it is this is what made the Coleco Adam so infamous- the electrical discharges generated at startup would erase nearby tapes.
|osper= Coleco Adam
|osdev= Coleco
|reldate= circa 1983
|lastrel= 1985


She is a skilled gamer and secretary. The green frills on her outfit are a reference to the Cabbage Patch logo and she even carries a Cabbage Patch doll with her because the franchise is also originally from Coleco. Another item she always carries with her is her printer which is not just part of her secretary job, it 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!
|fnote= Comments on the character.
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She used to be a serious rival to the Apple-tans, especially against Apple ][-tan because the Adam was named for the biblical reference of Adam biting into the apple.
===Description===
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.
 
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 and polite. She is friends with [[Barbie Linux | Barbie Linux-tan]] and rivals with [[Apple II | Apple II-tan]].
 
===OSC Notes===
Her rivals back in the 1980's were [[Commodore 64 | 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 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 Vintage-tans 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.

Revision as of 21:47, 30 August 2008

Comments on the character.
Coleco Adam-tan
Colecoadam.gif
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Common Name: Adam-tan
Alias(es): n/a
First Appearance: Jul 2007
Original Creator: Aurora Borealis
OPERATIVE SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS Personified: Coleco Adam
OS Devloper: Coleco
Release Date: circa 1983
Latest Stable Release: 1985

Description

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.

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 and polite. She is friends with Barbie Linux-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 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 Vintage-tans 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.