SAM Coupé
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The SAM Coupé is an 8-bit British home computer manufactured by Miles Gordon Technology, based in Swansea in the United Kingdom and released in December 1989.
SAM Coupé
SAM Coupé profile, illustrating the origin of its car themed name
The original MGT SAM Coupé box — all original MGT material pictured a single disk drive inserted into the right hand side as per the prototypes even though the production model required single drive users to use the left-hand bay
Rear view of the system. From left to right: NMI break button, MIDI IN/OUT ports, joystick port, mouse port, reset button, Euroconnector expansion port, cassette jack, stereo sound output/lightpen input, power button, SCART socket, power/RF socket
ZX Spectrum
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The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit home computer developed and marketed by Sinclair Research. The Spectrum played a pivotal role in the history of personal computers and video games, especially in the United
SAM Coupé
…Technology (MGT), based in Swansea in the United Kingdom and released in December 1989. It was based on and designed to have a compatibility mode with the ZX Spectrum 48K with influences from the Loki project and marketed as a logical upgrade from the Spectrum with increased memory, graphical and sound capabilities…
Issue 2 1982 model
Clive Sinclair in 1990
An original concept sketch of the ZX Spectrum, depicting an angular and wedge-like form similar to its predecessor, the ZX81
Designer Rick Dickinson in the Sinclair Research Cambridge office in 1983