cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (03/29/89)
[I hadn't seen this on Usenet so I thought I'd cc it to this list.
this is from March 9th -- Chuck]
TITLE: Commodore CeBIT Press Announcement
Commodore Announces New Products for European Market
West Chester, PA, Wednesday, March 8, 1989 - Commodore International
Limited announced at the CeBIT 1989 computer show in Hanover, Germany
that its European subsidiaries will begin marketing new professional,
business and consumer enhancements for the Amiga line of microcomputers.
Commodore also previewed a graphics card for the Amiga and two new
computers for its MS-DOS PC compatible product group.
The new Amiga products include a UNIX compatible version of the Amiga
2500; an Amiga 2000HD color Desktop Publishing Package; an Amiga 500
Desktop Video Package with the new Videobox peripheral; a 20MB
autoboot expansion drive for the Amiga 500; and a high resolution color
graphics card for the Amiga 2000 family. The additions to the MS-DOS
line include new 80386 and 80286 personal computers.
The Amiga 2500 UX is a powerful but economically priced UNIX compatible
workstation for the government, scientific, engineering and academic
markets. It features a UNIX System V compatible operating system and
Amiga DOS installed on an 80 MB, 19 ms hard drive; an internal 150 MB
streamer tape drive; a 14.3 MHz, 32-bit Motorola 68020 processor
(upgradable to 25 MHz); a Memory Management Unit; math co-processor;
and 5 MB 32-bit RAM.
The Amiga 2000HD Desk Top Publishing Package is a comparatively
inexpensive color desktop publishing solution for business users. It
features an Amiga 20000HD with 3 MB RAM; 40 MB hard disk; high-
resolution color monitor adaptor; Sharp color scanner with interface
card and software; Professional Page and Professional Draw software;
and a PostScript compatible NEC laser printer. The system can also
send PostScript files to modern typesetting systems like Linotronics,
and can do full color separations automatically.
The Amiga 500 Desk Top Video Package offers the demanding video amateur
an attractively priced color desktop video solution for the PAL
standard. It features the new Videobox, which combines a genlock,
digitizer and integrated RGB splitter to merge, superimpose and record
computer images on video. Also included are painting, animation, video
effects and titling software.
The A590 is an external 20 MB hard drive and RAM expansion unit to
enhance the Amiga 500's capacity for home and education applications.
The unit contains a slimline 3.5" hard disk drive; an interface for
additional external drives; sockets for 2 MB RAM expansion; and an
external power supply.
Commodore also previwed a High Resolution Color Graphics Card for the
Amiga 2000 family of computers. The card offers programmable
resolutions of up to 1024 x 1024 pixels in 256 colors (from a pallete
of 16 million) and provides Direct Memory Access (DMA) capabilities for
high speed data transfer and other communications with the Amiga 2000.
A new 80386 computer, planned for launch in 1989, will have a floor-
standing "tower" configuration for corporate and work-station
applications. This high-speed MS-DOS compatible will provide room for
multiple storage devices and expansion cards.
The MS-DOS model PC 30-III will be targeted for the price-sensitive
professional and work-at-home markets. This 80286 machine has 640K of
RAM; a 20 megabyte hard disk drive; built-in mouse support; and four
expansion slots. It runs at 6, 8 or 12 megaHertz. Like it's more
powerful predecessor, the Commodore PC 40-III, it includes Commodore's
unique Autoconfig feature, which substantially reduces the effort of
installing expansion cards. The system automatically configures the
on-board peripherals to prevent address and memory conflicts without
the inconvenience of resetting DIP switches.
Commodore International Limited, through its subsidiaries around the
world, manufactures and markets personal computers for home,
education, business and professional users. The Company has three
product lines; C64/C128D computers for home and education, MS-DOS PC
compatibles for home, office and business, and the Amiga computers for
home, education, business and professional markets.
--Chuck McManis
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