Sam's 15th Birthday!

Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of the Sam Coupe! Did anyone here receive their Sam in December 1989 when they were released, and did it live up to your initial expectations? Throughout December i'm going to be putting up some special offers on the main Quazar website to tie in with th

RE: Sam's 15th Birthday!

Got mine Jan 1990 :D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent: 01 December 2004 10:25 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Sam's 15th Birthday! Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of the Sam Coupe! Did anyone he

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Colin Piggot wrote: > Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of the Sam Coupe! Did > anyone here receive their Sam in December 1989 when they were > released, and did it live up to your initial expectations? Yes and yes. I'd spent pretty much all my pennies from my paper-round and was well ch

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Quoting Geoff Winkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Colin Piggot wrote: > > Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of the Sam Coupe! Did > > anyone here receive their Sam in December 1989 when they were > > released, and did it live up to your initial expectations? > > Yes and yes. I'd spent prett

Re: Sam's 15th Birthday!

> Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of the Sam Coupe! Did anyone > here receive their Sam in December 1989 when they were released, and did it > live up to your initial expectations? I got mine in Dec 1989, and it did in fact fill me with joy for about 6 weeks until a mate got an Amiga

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    Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of the Sam Coupe! Did anyonehere receive their Sam in December 1989 when they were released, and did itlive up to your initial expectations?   Yes!, I got my Sam`s from a Show in Blackpool, some hotel, it was a very cold day. I think I wa

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> _www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk_ (http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk) Hey, that's a really nice site - I've never really bothered with Pro-dos or CP/M on the SAM (beyond glancing at it for a SAM Community news item), this looks like a nice roundup. Gavin

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Got mine februari. > I remember being disappointed about the disk not working there where several problems of it's rushed release. But without them I probably wouldn't have done the things I did and would't be as close to MGT as I was then. While at it I remember there was a SAM Hotline, I hate

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I remember getting the technical manual through - seemed like a huge manual back then :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin Blink Sent: 01 December 2004 12:06 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Sam's 15th Birthday! Got

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Quoting Edwin Blink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Got mine februari. > > > I remember being disappointed about the disk not working > > there where several problems of it's rushed release. But without them > I probably wouldn't have done the things I did and would't be as close > to MGT as I was then.

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Gavin Smith wrote: > > _www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk_ (http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk) > > Hey, that's a really nice site - I've never really bothered with > Pro-dos or CP/M on the SAM (beyond glancing at it for a SAM Community > news item), this looks like a nice roundup. Now we have the May

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I got mine in Dec 1989   Was in the first 100, so I was told   Bob.       ---Original Message---   From: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: 01 December 2004 10:49:27 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Sam's 15th Birthday!   Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday

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   I had forgotten the disk never worked,   Bob.   ---Original Message---   From: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: 01 December 2004 11:02:43 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Sam's 15th Birthday!   Colin Piggot wrote: > Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of

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Subject: RE: Sam's 15th Birthday!      I had forgotten the disk never worked,   Bob.   ---Original Message---   From: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: 01 December 2004 11:02:43 To: sam-users@nvg.nt

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> > > I didn't get a disk drive for 6 months :-( tape loading assemblers art > packages etc - took ages! > Yeah, but wasn't it fun/exciting as the tape drive made a similar, yet totally different noise from the spectrum - you KNEW it was better just by the screech ;) -- _ _

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Well, that's one good way to look at it :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gaz Wilson Sent: 01 December 2004 17:09 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Sam's 15th Birthday! > > > I didn't get a disk drive for 6

Yaaaayyyy - Sam's 15th Birthday!

--- Adrian Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had to live for 6 months with no computer to get > the sam :( > Phoo, that`s harsh... I had to save for 18 months to get mine, luckily I suppose as by Feb `91 the drives were all sorted... although I did try the tapes... didn`t Flash take like 20

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Colin Piggot wrote: > Did anyone here receive their Sam in December 1989 when they > were released, and did it live up to your initial expectations? Does anyone else still have their order confirmation cards? Here's mine: http://www.simonowen.com/images/samorder.jpg I remember it feeling quite

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Does anyone else still have their order confirmation cards? Here's mine: http://www.simonowen.com/images/samorder.jpg I remember it feeling quite an alien machine to code for at first, after years of familiarity with the Speccy. It certainly lived up to my expectations though :-) *Makes a

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> Does anyone else still have their order confirmation cards? Here's mine: > http://www.simonowen.com/images/samorder.jpg Great to see one of those again ! Maybe we all should dig around and see what we come up with ! I found that hotline tape BTW now need to make a mp3 out of it. > I remember

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  - Original Message - From: Bob Wilkinson To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no ; sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:56 PM Subject: Re: Sam's 15th Birthday! I got mine in Dec 1989   Was in the first 100, so I was

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I got mine knowingly at Christmas from my parents..  I pretended to not know what I was getting, but through a mishap with the post, I was forewarned! Christmas day was ...  well, it started ok, then the PSU blew and I had to wait till the next few business working days to send the PSU back and g

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    Subject:        Re: Sam's 15th Birthday! > Does anyone else still have their order confirmation cards?  Here's > mine: > http://www.simonowen.com/images/samorder.jpg > > I remember it feeling quite an alien machine to code for at first, > after > years of famili

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Same as. I was lucky enough to be in the first batch and really enjoyed it. Was a bit upset it wouldn't work with some of my TVs correctly, so had a trip down to Swansea to meet the guys who fiddled about with the RF modulator and done some tweaks and various changes. Feel quite blessed I got to

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tnu.no Adrian> Subject: RE: Sam's 15th Birthday! Adrian> I had forgotten the disk never worked, Adrian> Bob. Adrian> ---Original Message--- Adrian> From: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Adrian> Date: 01 December 2004 11:02:43 Adrian> To: sam-users@n

RE: Yaaaayyyy - Sam's 15th Birthday!

Calvin Allett wrote: > 15, before you know it he`ll be dating, haha Hmm. Jokes about Amigas and STd's on the way... G __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit ht

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I may have sold some of my SAM floppies recently, but I still have every piece of paper I received from all the SAM Companies over the years. I even have the original glossy sales brochure I can scan for the site if wanted. Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 7:43:18 PM, you wrote: Simon> Colin Piggot

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I had to live for 6 months with no computer to get the sam :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Chandler Sent: 01 December 2004 17:24 To: Adrian Brown Subject: Re[2]: Sam's 15th Birthday! It was a number of months before I could a

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Subject: Re[2]: Sam's 15th Birthday! I may have sold some of my SAM floppies recently, but I still have every piece of paper I received from all the SAM Companies over the years. I even have the original glossy sales brochure I can scan for the site if wanted. Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 7:43:

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2004 20:33 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Re[2]: Sam's 15th Birthday! 15 years is al to much for my sam - its refusing to boot :( ill have to dig the spare parts out of the workshop. Can life get any worse!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

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