Sam élite

Submitted by Dan Dooré on Tue, 2006-04-18 15:23. Hardware

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Description:

The Sam élite was a re-packaged Sam Coupé with the addition of:

512kB Memory Expansion as standard
A Floppy drive
A parallel printer interface

The Sam Drive slim-line floppy drives from Citizen had been withdrawn them from the European market in 1990 and were replaced with standard 3.5 inch drives which required some modification to the front drive plates for the faces to stick out.

Trivia:

The Parallel interface was squeezed into the case and had a port on the back of the plastic case above the Euroconnector.

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Blue/Black feet.

Submitted by Quazar on Tue, 2006-05-16 10:06.

I’ve removed the comment about Elite’s having black feet - probably the odd few, but all the Elite’s i’ve seen have had blue feet.

My original Sam Coupé, bought in 1993 had black feet, and to date only seen two other Sam’s with them. I wonder if they were an initial batch to test the mouldings before the main blue ones were made and later just mixed in.

Also, the Sam Elite printer port had a proper hole cut in the back of the white case for the connector. I’ve got a photo somewhere.

Colin
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