On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 03:20:23PM +0000, The Mad Goose wrote: > ********************************************************************* > *******
You might want to stick to only the number of stars that your editor will allow on one line... > Launched in 1989 by Bruce Gordon and Alan Miles, the SAM Coupe was > the last chance saloon of the eight-bit world. Boasting decent > graphics, decent sound, compatibility with a large proportion of > Sinc lair Spectrum software and blue feet, it was the finest eight > bit machine to date. It was plugged to death in a range of Spectrum > magazines as the next logical upgrade for Sinclair users, and subseq > uently got branded a 'super spectrum'. This was a gross > misrepresentation for, although Spectrum were, and still are, > fantastic machines, the SAM Coupe offered so much more. Notice in the above the occurrences of "Sinc lair" and "subseq uently". Broken words like this occur throughout the document. You might want to get some editing software which actually works. :-) > Very rough estimates suggest that 12,000 SAM's have been sold over > Most FAQ's couldn't even begin to catalogue the software for an I'd lose the apostrophes. > SAM DISK - A disk run by graphics genius Steven Pick. Lot's of Definitely lose the apostrophe. > 2.6 Oh, almost forgot, what about the hardware? ATOM (and BDOS to go with it) Bob's SRAM board? Sam Bus / Sam Clock? (hello Gavin) > Sam Hard Drive - Guess? And look! Quel surprise! It's by Rookyard > and Cooke! Next time I see either of those two, I'm going to put a > spade in their heads and removed three quarters of their brains, t > his wobbly grey matter will then be shared between all us, mortals? > yes, mortals, so we can be clever boffins, too. Don't be so cruel... > Section Four - Who is...? > Colin Anderton : Edited FRED for quite a while, and used to write > some very funny editorials. b B You might want a line break before that B... > Roger Hartley : Another person who's musical talents exceed those of > Beethoven! Hardly. :-) And it's "whose". > Tim Paveley (Unc) : The person who's Web page this is sitting on. So is that... Derek Morgan Chris Pile (oh, and I don't think you mentioned ProDos either) Dave Tonks The above-mentioned Martin Rookyard That bloke who was supposed to be running Fred a few months ago imc
