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Wow, I didn't think there were enough people who'd even heard of the Sam Coupe.
by zelos 4y ago
Wow, I didn't think there were enough people who'd even heard of the Sam Coupe.
- pjmlp 4y agoDuring 128K speccy models to Amiga transition timeframe, it was common to see Sam Coupes in computer stores in Portugal.
- stevekemp 4y agoI remember being impressed at the specs of the Coupe, and seeing the manual was a pleasure. But even at the time it was released it seemed obvious it was doomed to failure. I never saw one in the flesh, but I did want to. The 48k spectrum was everywhere, and I have a giant print of the infamous rubber keyboard hanging on the wall behind me, but everything after that was always less special. (I owned a +2A, and I knew a couple of people with the +3, but they were very uncommon and mostly people moved on to 16 bit machines instead of staying in the Sinclair family.)
- zelos 4y agoYes, I ended up with a Coupe instead of an Amiga as my parents knew nothing about computers and figured it would be a good follow on from my +2. It was a clever machine in some ways, but from the launch it was clearly doomed.
- lproven 4y agoI owned one. Bought new. I sold it to a friend for £30 about 20Y ago. I regret that now. A lovely machine, but you needed MasterDOS and MasterBASIC to get the full potential... and it was doomed by the success of the Spectrum 128, with which it was incompatible. But a lovely computer all the same.