As far as I remember, what was used at SAMCo to gauge the age of a machine that came in was the serial numbers - the actual machine used Bruce's birthday with three zeros at the end for the first serial number, whilst the disc drives used Alan's birthday with three zeros. In the (unlikely) event that the machine I have to hand happens to have been in the first thousand, then Bruce's birthday is 17/7/48 and Alan's is 7/8/51.
And on the other note, I've just received Sam Revival this morning and I'm well impressed - a pretty slick and interesting production. It's fantastic to see things actually still being done, as opposed to merely talked about. My compliments to Mr Piggot. C. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent: 15 August 2002 15:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Quazar stuff > It's got the feeling of being > published during the SAM's peak (if you can call it that), rather than > in 2002...which either means Colin's a bit mad or he's just a bit into > the SAM. I suspect both. Both would be right :) > Still, Colin tells me the description in white of the > ports and buttons on the back of the baseplate is rare and indicates a > very early baseplate. Which *is* nice. Well, the test sticker inside says 20-12-89 so your Sam motherboard is right from the early days of production, and I have never seen the ports labelled on the back of any Sam before... all my Sam's baseplates are just black with no writing (all six at the last count) Colin ==== Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/
