ADAMcon XIII

PROGRAM

The session schedule is marked “tentative”, but Dale Wick’s daily report confirms that every session took place, and notes where the content changed. For the first time, ADAMcon was also streamed live on the net, through webcams in the hotel.

• Held A daily report, photograph or attendee account confirms it took place.
• Scheduled It appears in an agenda, but the final program may have changed.

Friday, July 13

1. Richard Drushel
   Welcome.
   Held
2. Herman Mason and George Koczwara
   “Introduction to ADAM BBSes” — Using their A-NET and TBBS systems.
   Held
3. Elanor Drushel
   “ColecoVision and ADAM Games” — Played on both real ADAMs and emulators.
   Held
   At eleven and a half, the youngest presenter at an ADAMcon, according to Dale Wick’s report.
4. Guy Bona
   “ADAM Emulator Utilities” — Updated tools for Marcel de Kogel’s ADAMEm.
   Held
5. Dale Wick
   “The Truth Is Out There!” — Boolean logic, algebra and truth tables, with hands-on experiments in SmartBASIC.
   Held

Saturday, July 14

1. Dale Wick
   “Schematics Are the Map to Treasure” — Logic gates, turning formulas into schematics, and the anatomy of logic chips.
   Held
   The schedule promised ADAM hardware interfaces and a circuit simulator; the interfaces moved to Sunday.
2. Richard Drushel
   “Introduction to Autonomous Robotics”
   Held
3. Richard Drushel
   “Building an Autonomous LEGO Robot” — A four-hour hands-on session at Case Western Reserve University, webcast live.
   Held
4. Activity
   Live computer chat.
   Scheduled

Sunday, July 15

1. Dale Wick
   “Building ADAM Hardware” — Expansion ports, board schematics, circuit-board production, GALBlast and Eagle CAD.
   Held
   Planned as a hands-on build of a joystick with fire-repeat; Dale was too tired to run it that way.
2. Activity
   ADAM hardware contest: teams raced to take an ADAM apart, put it back together and boot SmartBASIC.
   Held
   Moved to after lunch. Doug and Meeka Slopsema beat Bob and Judy Slopsema.
3. Ron Mitchell
   “3 Most Important Rules of Personal Computing: Backup, Backup, Backup!”
   Held
   Run as a round-table discussion.
4. Meeting
   ADAM News Network meeting.
   Held
   It settled the next two conventions: the Slopsemas in Michigan, then Ron Mitchell in British Columbia.

Day not recorded

1. Activity
   A treasure hunt for 30 items, running all weekend.
   Scheduled