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- Guru / ADiCT now brings to you very interresting News !!!
- Thanx to Alchemy for capturing the news on the Usenet !
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- Announcing NEW AMIGA MODELS! The AMIGA 600, AMIGA 2200, and AmigaStation!
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- AMIGA 600
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- The new Amiga 600 is "a very upgraded Amiga 500" which includes the
- ECS for 2MB Chip RAM. The mother board will hold the 2MB Chip RAM as
- well as an additional 1MB or 4MB of Fast RAM by using either 1Mbit or
- 4Mbit chips respectively. Stock systems will ship with 1MB Chip and
- 1MB Fast RAM. The Amiga 600 brings up the low end with a 68000 CPU
- that clocks at 14.3MHz. Addressing Fast (system) RAM at this speed
- makes the Amiga 600 twice as fast as the Amiga 500 in most operations.
- The A600, housed in the standard low-profile A500 case, also comes
- standard with one builtin High-Density floppy drive which can
- read/write standard Amiga 880K floppy disks as well as the Amiga
- 1.76MB High-Density format. The Amiga 600 also includes the standard
- serial, parallel, dual mouse ports, dual audio, floppy drive port,
- NTSC video and expansion bus as the Amiga 500. Pricing adhears to
- traditional A500 low-end pricing stratagy.
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- AMIGA 2200
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- A "killer no-nonsense" midrange Amiga system is finally here. The
- Amiga 2200 is actually more like a "slightly scaled down Amiga 3000."
- Housed in a box which is actually smaller than the A3000's case is a
- mother board which holds a 68020 CPU clocked at 14.3MHz. There is
- also a socket for an optional 68881 FPU. This is a "real 32 bit"
- system running on a 32 bit memory bus. The Amiga 2200 includes the
- ECS to support 2MB of Chip RAM. Up to 8MB of additional Fast RAM may
- be added to the mother board using 4Mbit RAM chips (or 2MB RAM using
- 1Mbit RAM chips). Stock systems will ship with 1MB Chip and 1MB Fast
- (system) RAM. A de-interlacer circuit is included on board as well as
- a 32 bit SCSI hard drive interface similar to the A3000. There are
- three expansion slots including two full 32 bit bus expansion slots
- "ala A3000 style" on a verticle daughter board and a direct CPU
- expansion connector which can take a 68030 or 68040 CPU accelerator.
- The Amiga 2200's low-profile, compact case has room for two internal
- 3.5" drives. Stock systems will ship with either one 1.76MB High-
- Density floppy drive and a 52MB Quantum hard drive or two HD floppy
- drives. I/O ports include standard serial, parallel, dual mouse
- ports, dual audio, SCSI, floppy drive port, NTSC video and
- de-interlaced 31KHz video. The Amiga 2200 with hard drive is priced
- substancially less then the A3000/16/50 which is being phased out of
- production. The Amiga 3000/25 will continue as the high end of the
- Amiga personal computer line.
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- AMIGASTATION
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- An all new line of powerful Amiga WorkStations is now ready to leap
- Amiga computing to a new high level of processing capability. The
- AmigaStation line initially includes three basic models. All three
- models incorporate the Motorola 68040 CPU, 32bit SCSI-2 hard disk
- interface, ECS, video de-interlacer, WorkBench 2.0 and contain up to
- 32MB of system RAM on the mother board. Additionally, All models
- include enhanced digital audio capability which inludes dual channel 8
- bit audio output at up to 44Khz and single channel 16 bit audio output
- at up to 22 KHz sample rate. All models also come with the option of
- UNIX System 5, Rlease 4 which can be pre-installed. An EtherNet board
- is available for standard network interface capability on all models.
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- The High-End A4300, housed in a "Tower Style" case, incorporates the
- MC68040 CPU clocked at 25MHz, 8MB system RAM, 2MB ESC Chip RAM, 330MB
- hard disk, 1.76MB floppy drive and a high resolution coprocessor based
- video graphics card with 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution and 8 bit color
- from a 24 bit palette. Video RAM expands to support 24 bit color
- displayed from a 24 bit palette. System RAM can be expaned to 32MB on
- the mother board which also contains five 32bit expansion slots for
- further memory and peripheral expansion. The video card occupies one
- expansion slot. A CPU direct slot supports an optional high-speed
- cache memory card. The system enclosure provides room for four
- internal 3.5" drives and two 5.25" drives. I/O ports include standard
- serial and parallel ports, SCSI port, NTSC video, de-interalced video,
- high resolution RGB video, dual mouse and dual audio ports.
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- The A4200, housed in a very low profile "pizza box" style case,
- incorporates the MC68040 CPU clocked at 25MHz, 8MB system RAM, 2MB ESC
- Chip RAM, 210MB hard disk, 1.76MB floppy drive and a high resolution
- coprocessor based video graphics card with 1280 x 1024 pixel
- resolution and 8 bit color from a 24 bit palette. Video RAM expands
- to support 24 bit color displayed from a 24 bit palette. System RAM
- can be expaned to 32MB on the mother board which also contains three
- 32bit expansion slots for further memory and peripheral expansion.
- The video card occupies one expansion slot. A CPU direct slot
- supports an optional high-speed cache memory card. The low profile,
- low cost system enclosure provides room for three internal 3.5"
- drives. I/O ports include standard serial and parallel ports, SCSI
- port, NTSC video, de-interalced video, high resolution RGB video, dual
- mouse and dual audio ports.
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- The A4100, housed in a very low profile "pizza box" style case,
- incorporates the MC68040 CPU clocked at 25MHz, 4MB system RAM, 2MB ESC
- Chip RAM, 105MB hard disk, 1.76MB floppy drive. System RAM can be
- expaned to 32MB on the mother board which also contains three 32bit
- expansion slots for further memory and peripheral expansion. A CPU
- direct slot supports an optional high-speed cache memory card. The
- low profile, low cost system enclosure provides room for three
- internal 3.5" drives. I/O ports include standard serial and parallel
- ports, SCSI port, NTSC video, de-interalced video, dual mouse and dual
- audio ports.
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- NOTES:
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- Amiga 600: With a 14.3MHz 68000, and 6MB on board RAM (2MB Chip, 4MB
- Fast RAM), this brings the low-end, consumer level Amiga
- to a respsectable capability. Processing speed meets or
- exceeds any cheap 386sx clone. Just add another HD floppy
- drive and you've got a very capable system for a very low
- price.
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- Amiga 2200: This system is for the true Amiga enthusiast. Due to the
- very "cost reduced" mother board and system enclosure it
- is NOT BridgeBoard capable. It also has "only" two main
- expansion slots. However, with SCSI and up to 10MB RAM on
- board (2MB Chip, 8MB Fast) you may not need an expansion
- slot for a while. With a 14.3MHz 68020 running on a true
- 32 bit memory bus, you've got enough processing power to
- handle almost any task. When you are ready to expand, go
- ahead and fill one of the two 32 bit expansion slots with
- a 32MB memory board. And add a 28MHz 68040 to the CPU
- expansion slot. You'll be in "Amiga Heaven" with this
- kind of power. This system enclosure only holds two 3.5"
- drives. This is the most useful low-cost configuration and
- is due to the low-cost, small footprint inclosure. But
- you can still add floppy and hard drives externally to the
- built-in floppy and SCSI ports if necassary. The 68881 FPU
- is not included in stock systems, but at least the socket
- is there when you decide to plug one in. The A2200 will
- significantly out-perform the Mac Classic II and Mac IILC
- because these Macs use a 16 bit memory interface to their
- 32 bit processors. At list $1295 with one high-density
- floppy drive, a 50MB hard drive and 2MB RAM (1MB Chip and
- 1MB Fast) this system will sell like hot cakes. At $995
- street price this is a low-cost-Mac and clone killer for
- sure. In fact, a new factory may be needed to keep up with
- demand. The A2000 will remain in production for those who
- need a system where they can plug in the "kitchen sink."
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- AmigaStation: Wow! What else can you say? If you need high power
- in an Amiga, well, here it is! These systems are the
- ultimate for Amiga creativity for the power user. For
- professional or personal use in anaimation, ray trace,
- CAD and Desk Top Publishing, the AmigaStation really
- makes it possible - in a hurry! These systems are
- fast. But the optional low-cost, high-speed CPU cache
- card increases processing throughput by 20 to 30% and
- is well worth the extra cost. The A4300 tower system
- costs some $$, but will handle almost any peripheral
- expansion need internally. That, together with it's
- high-speed processing make it well worth the price for
- those who need this capability. For those who need
- only moderate internal peripheral expansion, the A4200
- and A4100 will out-compete, in price/performance, any
- high-end personal computer and compete well with any
- mid-range UNIX workstation. The 68040, known to be
- pretty fast, is still under estimated. It's at least
- 50% faster then the 486 at a given clock speed in most
- situations. So if you need a fast Amiga, or, for that
- matter, if you need a fast computer, GO FOR IT! One
- more note - The A3000 can essentially be brought up to
- the level of the AmigaStation series by adding a 68040
- accelerator and a high-res graphics video card.
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