Re: 10th Birthday

1999-08-30 Thread Simon Cooke
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Party! Party!!! P-A-R-T-Y!! I think that should do. Yay! I might actually get to talk to adie! :) When I finally wend my way back to the UK, we all have to get together and have a massive party or else. I need my dose of SAM community :) We all need to

Re: 10th Birthday

1999-08-30 Thread James R Curry
By the way -- everyone? -- if you ever want to come over to Seattle and spend some time out here, my spare room is always open! Simon You shouldn't say things like that when I'm in the same country, you know? ;) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!

10th Birthday

1999-08-29 Thread surfin_usm
From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]; sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no re: SAM's birthday. Like everyone else, I'm not sure when Format will be back to its usual self, but if nothing else is organised, we should definitely arrange something for SAM's 10th birthday. Any ideas

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-05 Thread Nick Humphries
On Thu, 04 Feb 1999 14:32:42 PST Thu, 4 Feb 99 22:57:15 GMT, you wrote: Future haven't made any official statement regarding YS copyrights. They haven't said no, but then they haven't said yes either. Most YS writers had a contract that gave Future first serial rights (i.e. YS printed their

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-05 Thread Nick Humphries
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:27:22 GMT+0 Fri, 5 Feb 99 13:33:06 GMT, you wrote: Now if only Future was open to doing a special Your Sinclair CD based on this site, include near-100% articles coverage, cover tape snapshots, etc, etc. I'd LOVE to handle a project like that... I'd want one! How about

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-05 Thread Maria Rookyard
I'm still looking for old YS's if anyone has any they don't want... Gavin Simon, do we still have your old copies lying around in the attic? If so, are you planning to keep or get rid? Maria. Possibly - in one of the boxes... ...but I've got all the ones I was in here. I'm more or less

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-04 Thread Nick Humphries
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:11:34 - Wed, 3 Feb 99 11:12:48 GMT, you wrote: -Original Message- From:Justin Skists [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, February 03, 1999 10:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: 10th Birthday Party Okie

Re: 10th Birthday.

1999-02-04 Thread Buffer Underrun
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:07:54 - Thu, 4 Feb 99 12:07:08 GMT, Malcolm Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrotf: Most of the people who ordered thier SAM`s early had them delivered mid December (well the one`s I have spoken to, that is), I do not know anyone who got thier SAM in November, if anyone

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-04 Thread Simon Cooke
I'm still looking for old YS's if anyone has any they don't want... Gavin Simon, do we still have your old copies lying around in the attic? If so, are you planning to keep or get rid? Maria. Possibly - in one of the boxes... ...but I've got all the ones I was in here. Also, thing is,

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-04 Thread Simon Cooke
Future haven't made any official statement regarding YS copyrights. They haven't said no, but then they haven't said yes either. Most YS writers had a contract that gave Future first serial rights (i.e. YS printed their stuff first) but after that, copyright is owned by the witers themselves,

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-03 Thread Andrew Collier
At 2:52 pm + 2/2/99, Lee Willis wrote: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everyone should be made to wear name badges, we may never have seen some of their faces...! Yes but this is a 'good thing' (TM), name badges are 'bad'! Why?! Andrew PS. Just thought of another name; Andy

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-03 Thread Frode Tenneboe
David Gommeren I should be able to contact him if neccesary. ESI's Matt The address I have on him is rather old, though. -Frode

RE: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-03 Thread Justin Skists
From: Simon Cooke Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors, maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that strict, do we? Ahem. She had a voice like sunshine, and was cute as hell to boot. Ahhh.. Yes... The Babe of YS.. :) You've met her?

RE: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-03 Thread Gavin Smith
-Original Message- From: Justin Skists [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 9:50 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: 10th Birthday Party Ahhh.. Yes... The Babe of YS.. :) You've met her

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-03 Thread PGLOVER43
I'm not keen on name badges, but I'd recommend them for any meeting such as a SAM one. Even though you may have written to, e-mailed or phoned someone, you may not have a clue what they may look like. You may simply miss meeting someone if badges aren't worn. Imagine being told the next day that

Re: 10th Birthday.

1999-02-03 Thread PGLOVER43
Although I ordered my first SAM as soon as orders were being taken, due to admin. problems, it didn't arrive until well after the new year. Oh what memories: Tape loads, no DOS and other fun things related to 8-bit machines! Nevertheless, once I'd got things like MasterDOS/BASIC, twin drives,

Re: 10th Birthday.

1999-02-03 Thread Dave Hooper
are cool. (much better than name tshirts). And I might even make it to the 10th Birthday Bash dave

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-03 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Simon, I take it Future are still holding tightly to the copyright on the YS issues? I know there are various bits and pieces of YS stuff on the web, but it would be nice to have full issues up. I'm still looking for old YS's if anyone has any they don't want... urmm, this just reminded me

10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread Andrew Collier
Does anybody actually know, for certain, exactly what day the Sam's tenth anniversary actually is? All we seem to have got so far is sometime around November[1] And has anybody booked out a hall on the nearest Saturday? I'll be nearer Quedgely that Horwich at the time, BTW. I think it would be

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread Lee Willis
Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it would be really great if we could contact just about every major Sam name, past and present, and invite them to come along. We could hire a pro photographer and get a *real* group photo, for once. We could have Retro-computing TV

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread Gordon Wallis
Andrew Collier wrote: I think it would be really great if we could contact just about every major Sam name, past and present, and invite them to come along. We could hire a pro photographer and get a *real* group photo, for once. We could have Retro-computing TV researchers. And computer

10th Birthday.

1999-02-02 Thread Malcolm Mackenzie
Andrew, It was a little joke, a very little one in fact, one of my pet cat`s is named SAM, and she was 10 last year! I was waiting for someone to react to it, and you did, a little late mind you! but you were the first. I don`t know exactly what the official release date was, I ordered my SAM in

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread Simon Cooke
Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors, maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that strict, do we? Ahem. She had a voice like sunshine, and was cute as hell to boot. :-) Si __ Get Your

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread Nick Humphries
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:19:40 PST Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:24:29 GMT, you wrote: Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors, maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that strict, do we? Ahem. She had a voice like sunshine, and was cute as hell to boot. And

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread Nick Humphries
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:24:10 GMT Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:30:22 GMT, you wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:19:40 PST Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:24:29 GMT, you wrote: Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors, maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that strict, do we?

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread Gordon Wallis
Simon Cooke wrote: Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors, maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that strict, do we? Ahem. She had a voice like sunshine, and was cute as hell to boot. :-) Si Damn you! Why did you have to say

Re: 10th Birthday.

1999-02-02 Thread David
From: Malcolm Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sam users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02 February 1999 21:15 Subject: 10th Birthday. Most of the people who ordered thier SAM`s early had them delivered mid December (well the one`s I have spoken to, that is), I do not know anyone who got thier SAM

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread David
rom: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sam users' mailing list sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: 02 February 1999 14:48 Subject: 10th Birthday Party And has anybody booked out a hall on the nearest Saturday? I'll be nearer Quedgely that Horwich at the time, BTW. Ah well... that let's me out