cagordon@watnot.UUCP (03/31/87)
Here is some info on the new Amiga 500 which may be of interest of someone. It
was taken from QuantumLink:
SUBJ: Amiga 500 Press Release
FROM: RBAKER 03/25/87 S#: 508643
New Commodore Amiga 500
Affordably priced for the home
Amiga's acclaimed Graphics, music and video at a low cost
The Commodore Amiga 500, exhibited for the first time at the Hanover Fair in
West Germany in March, provides the graphics and sound capabilities of
Commodore's current Amiga 1000, plus additional memory, at a significantly
lower cost. According to Nigel Shepherd, general manager, Commodore North
America, Commodore's goal was to create "the ultimate home computer," a
computer that fully utilizes the Amiga's outstanding technology -- including
advanced graphics and video, four channel sound, built-in speech and
multitasking -- but is priced for the home. "Thanks to increased production
efficiences and refinements in design, we have achieved that goal," Mr.
Shepherd said. "The result is a computer that maintains the performance of
the Amiga 1000 at about half the cost. The Amiga 500 is a highly
sophisticated home computer that outperforms all other machines in its price
range."
FEATURES
The Amiga 500 has a one-piece design that integrates the keyboard, central
processing unit and 3.5" disk drive into a single unit. It has 512KB of
memory standard, expandable to one megabyte internally using Commodore's
A501 RAM expansion cartridge. The A501 expander also includes a battery-
backed real-time clock. Memory is capable of being expanded up to nine
megabytes externally. It is being introduced simultaneously with Commodore's
new Amiga 2000 computer, an open-architecture machine with optional IBM-PC
compatibility aimed at high-powered business users. Both the Amiga 500 and
the Amiga 200 share the following features:
* Motorola 68000 CPU operating at 7.14 MHz
* 4096 color graphics driven by high speed custom graphics hardware
* 4 channel left/right sound generation and built-in speech
* compatible with the current Amiga 1000 version 1.2 system software
* ROM resident V1.2 Kickstart/kernal
* Parallel and serial pots using industry standard connectors
* new 94-key beyboard with separate numeric keypad, ten function keys,
inverted-T cursor pad and larger Enter and Shift keys
* AmigaDOS, Workbench (the window-oriented user interface), two-button mouse
and AmigaBASIC from Microsoft Corp. included in the package.
The Amiga 500 will be available in the first half of 1987 for a suggested
retail price of $649.
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