Coleco Adam name?

[Adam Sampson]

Geoff Oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net> writes:

> It only required one AC connection for the whole thing, one wire going
> from the printer to the computer, and one wire to the keyboard.

Which is perfectly reasonable -- but you can get the same effect by
putting the shared PSU in the computer. The Amstrad PCW 8256/8512 used
that approach: monitor with integrated CP/M machine, simple dot matrix
printer powered from it, and a separate keyboard. This meant that you
didn't need to connect the printer if you weren't going to use it, and
third-party printer upgrades were fairly common.

(To be fair, the PCW's printer was connected to the PCW with *two*
cables -- data and power -- but I suspect that was just Amstrad's
designers being their usual penny-pinching selves...)

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