Okay, I am happy to agree that a Hard disk would be nice, and I would possibly consider buying that, if I could afford it. What I probably would not buy, are things like the Quazar Surround Sound.
I do not mean any offense to the people who are designing such things, I am sure that they are very good, but anything like that, would need to be catered for seperatly. I guess I'm not explaining this well, I'll try an example. If you buy the harddrive, anybody can use it, programs should be able to use it straight away with little or no adaption, and you don't lose out if you decide that you would rather not buy one. Compare this with say the kalideoscope. 32,768 colours sounded a nice idea, but it wasn't really needed, people would still have to take into account the people who hadn't bought it, unless you wanted to seperate the Sam Owners into Kalideoscope owners and not. In which case, you didn't actually need to buy it. So the kalideoscope would only have been bought and used by people who really wanted 32,768 colours, while most people were perfectly happy with 128. I think you can class hardware into 2 vague areas, those that people may or may not find useful, such as hard drives, comms, printer interfaces. And those that were actually changing the Spec of the Sam, such as a new ASIC, and the Kalideoscope. I like the first, but not the second. Tim -- Tim Paveley - University of Southampton Sam Coupe Web Pages: http://whig.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tsp93/Coupe/home.html
