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   From: rfd@po.cwru.edu   
      
   In alt.folklore.computers Alex  wrote:   
      
   : For true   
   : hobbiests short of falling under some corporate envelope what else is   
   : there to do?   
      
   	Retrocomputing :-)  My hobby has been the Coleco ADAM.  I collect   
   documentation, fix broken stuff, go to the annual ADAMcon (18 will be in   
   Chicago next year, we were just in Whitby, Ontario, Canada this past summer   
   for 17), and hack away.  Since the ADAM is mostly unchanging, all of my   
   knowledge and experience are additive, never go out of style.  Still plenty   
   of stuff to do.  I myself like rigid forms that, within the limits, still   
   allow you to say anything you want (paraphrased from Madeleine L'Engle   
   somewhere).   
      
   	I owe major parts of my teaching, research, recreation, travel,   
   and even my wife-to-be to my ADAM hobby.  And I don't care if nobody else   
   notices us ADAMites; all the more for us, though anybody is welcome (and   
   we have had community growth from gamers coming at the ADAM via the Coleco-   
   Vision console).   
      
   	So, I guess my advice is, if you are comfy with the old, keep hacking   
   away at it!   
      
   	*Rich*   
      
   	http://adamcon.org/       and many links branch out from there   
      
      
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