 The Amiga 3000T, a towerized version of the A3000.
The A3000, also known as the Commodore Amiga 3000, was a much more serious proposition to build a professional multimedia computer than the previous A2000 effort. It was released in 1990. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (868x853, 220 KB) Summary A Commodore Amiga 3000T computer. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (868x853, 220 KB) Summary A Commodore Amiga 3000T computer. ...
Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. ...
The original Amiga (1985) The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ...
The A2000, also known as the Commodore Amiga 2000, was the high-end Amiga personal computer that was released in 1987 at the same time as the low-end high-volume model A500. ...
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The Amiga 3000 came in a desktop box with a separate keyboard.
Technical Specifications
- a Motorola 68030 processor at either 16 MHz or 25 MHz (The 16 MHz models were discontinued soon after).
- 2Mb of memory (configured as 1Mb chip ram and 1Mb 32bit Fast ram), expandable to a total of 18Mb onboard.
- a 68881 or 68882 FPU coprocessor (The 16 MHz model shipped with a 68881, the 25 MHz model with a 68882)
- the ECS chipset.
- a SCSI interface and a Quantum 40Mb or 100Mb 3.5" Hard Drive.
- a built-in 'flicker fixer' which enabled the use of a VGA monitor.
One could increase the amount of Fast RAM by adding ZIP DRAM chips, these were notoriously difficult to fit - and were available in two varieties, Page Mode or Static Column. Motorola 68030 Processor from a Macintosh IIsi The Motorola 68030 is a 32-bit microprocessor in Motorolas 68000 family. ...
The Motorola 68881 was a floating-point coprocessor chip that was utilized in some computer systems that used the 68020 or 68030 CPU. The addition of the 68881 chip added substantial cost to the computer, but added a floating point unit that could rapidly perform floating point math calculations. ...
The Motorola 68881 was a floating-point coprocessor chip that was utilized in some computer systems that used the 68020 or 68030 CPU. The addition of the 68881 chip added substantial cost to the computer, but added a floating point unit that could rapidly perform floating point math calculations. ...
A floating point unit (FPU) is a part of a CPU specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. ...
A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor (the CPU). ...
ECS is an acronym for Enhanced Chip Set. ...
SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface, and is a standard interface and command set for transferring data between devices on both internal and external computer buses. ...
The Amiga flicker fixer does the exact opposite of what a typical pc scan converter does. ...
Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a computer display standard first marketed in 1987 by IBM. VGA belongs to a family of earlier IBM video standards and largely remains backward compatible with them. ...
The zig-zag in-line package or ZIP was a short-lived packaging technology for integrated circuits, particularly dynamic RAM chips. ...
Other models included the A3000UX bundled with UNIX System V Release 4, and the A3000T tower computer. The A3000UX is a model of the Amiga computer family that was released with Commodore Amiga Unix installed instead of AmigaOS, a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4. ...
AT&T UNIX System V was one of the versions of the UNIX operating system. ...
The Amiga 3000T is the tower version of the Commodore Amiga 3000. ...
An enhanced version, the Amiga 3000+, with the AGA chipset and an AT&T DSP chip was produced to prototype stage but never launched, instead Commodore replaced the A3000 with the cost-reduced A4000. Aga is: another name for Aegea. ...
A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time. ...
The A4000, or Commodore Amiga 4000, was the successor of the A2000 and A3000 computers. ...
The A3000 designation was also used on an Acorn Archimedes model. Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. ...
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8-bit refers to the number of bits used in the data bus of a computer. ...
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The PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was a home-/personal computer produced by Commodore starting in the late 1970s. ...
The Commodore CBM-II series was a short-lived series of personal computers from Commodore International, intended as a follow-on to the Commodore PET series, released in 1982. ...
VIC-20 with accessories. ...
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In computer science, 16-bit is an adjective used to describe integers that are at most two bytes wide, or to describe CPU architectures based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. ...
32-bit is a term applied to processors, and computer architectures which manipulate the address and data in 32-bit chunks. ...
Amiga 1000 (1985) The A1000, or Commodore Amiga 1000, was Commodores initial Amiga multimedia home/personal computer, released in the summer of 1985 at an original retail price of US$1,295 without a monitor. ...
Missing image A500 The A500, also known as the Amiga 500, was the first low-end Commodore Amiga 16_bit multimedia home/personal computer model. ...
The A2000, also known as the Commodore Amiga 2000, is the high-end Amiga personal computer that was released in 1987 at the same time as the low-end high-volume model A500. ...
The Commodore Amiga 500 Plus, (A500+) is a enhanced version of the original Amiga 500. ...
The Amiga 2500, also known as the A2500, was an enhanced version of the Commodore Amiga 2000. ...
The A3000UX is a model of the Amiga computer family that was released with Commodore Amiga Unix installed instead of AmigaOS, a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4. ...
The Amiga 3000T is the tower version of the Commodore Amiga 3000. ...
The A600, also known as the Amiga 600 (codenamed June Bug after a B-52s song), was an Amiga personal computer launched in March 1992. ...
The Amiga 1200, or A1200, was Commodore Internationals third-generation Amiga computer, aimed at the home market. ...
Amiga 4000T The A4000, or Commodore Amiga 4000, was the successor of the A2000 and A3000 computers. ...
The Acorn Archimedes was Acorn Computers Ltds first general purpose home computer based on their own 24-bit ARM RISC CPU, and spawned a family of very capable machines with various options. ...
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