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From: pruyne@smilodon.cs.wisc.edu (James Pruyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New computer?
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Date: 17 Oct 90 17:29:33 GMT
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In article <323@pdxgate.UUCP> griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) writes:
%>fully multitasking/windowing wonder will retail about $1000 including the
%>monitor among other things.  It is supposedly running a 68070.  I have neither
%>heard nor seen anything about such a system, but he keeps insisting that it
%>will be released soon.  The last time I talked to him, he said that
%>it would be coming out next month.  It is supposed to come decked with 8 megs
%>and a hard disk (I think).

As one who already has an order in for a system that sounds a lot like this
I think I can help clear the air a little.  First, on the hardware side, it
will use a 68070, running at 15Mhz (which is supposedly about the same as
12Mhz on a 68000).  The 68070 is not made by Motorola but Signetics, and
does have timers, dma controllers and a uart built in.  The graphics chip
has modes from 320x200 in 256 colors to 640x400 in 16 colors.  You can also
get something like 720x560 if you have a multi-synch monitor.  There will
also be a palette chip which has 16 million colors.  As for software, the
base operating system is OS/9 68000 (OSK) v2.3. with a windowing system.
It also includes a C compiler, structured basic, editors, etc. and some
kind of drawing program.  It also includes software support for networking
and tape backup.  The base system also includes a 1.4 meg floppy drive, and
software to read/write PC disks.  The price for this system is $779, with 1
Meg. of memory but no Keyboard or Monitor.  Keyboards and Monitors are
available, but can also be purchased from third parties (any XT keyboard
will do, and most any analog RGB monitor is fine).  There's a second board
available with a few more serial ports (the base system has one or two),
two bi-directional serial ports, two SIMM sockets, clock and SCSI port.
This board is about $300. 

The machine is called the MM/1 and is available from Interactive Media
Systems.

I'm not trying to butt in here, but there seemed to be some questions and
lots of misinformation, so if you're not interested please just ignore
this.  If you are interested I'm willing to give out more info to anyone
who wants it.

--- Jim