SAM Coupe | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1983-1986
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: Zilog Z80B, 6 MHz
- RAM: 256 KB
- FDD: 3.5″, 800 KB
- HDD: –
- Audio: Eight octaves, six stereo channels, two noise generators
- Connectors/Ports: RGB, serial or network, parallel, joystick, audio, video
- Case: Keyboard type
- Monitor: Color
- OS: SamDOS or CP/M
The SAM Coupe has a Zilog Z80B processor at 6 MHz and memory of 256kB. Equipped with a floppy disk of 3.5” at 800kB it ran with the operating system of SamDOS or CP/M version.
Miles Gordon Technology for a short period produced the SAM Coupé 8-bit computer. Released in a time when 16-bit computers were more prevalent, the product didn’t meet commercial success. Consumers, though, considered it a logical upgrade to the ZX Spectrum with the design of the ZX Spectrum 48K.
The Coupe model had a design and architecture aimed to the UK market. It was designed around the PAL television standard and had a large border surrounding the display. In total, the model had 4 display modes, design borrowed from the aforementioned ZX Spectrum 48K.
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PC.GR
The history of personal computers
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