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From: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000, B2000, what's the DEAL!???
Keywords: Revisions, A2000, B2000...etc etc...
Message-ID: <15814@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Nov 90 22:22:35 GMT
References: <15706@brahms.udel.edu>
Reply-To: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
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In article <15706@brahms.udel.edu> jeremym@brahms.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
>Alirght, alright... people have been talking
>about the two types of Amiga 2000 machines....
>There's the A2000 and the B2000. As far as I know...
>The only difference is that teh B2000 was made in California
>and the A2000 was the German model which was most accepted..
> 
>1) Is this true??
>2) What incompatabilities are there between the machines?
>3) What do the jumpers on the B2000 vs. the A2000 do?
>4) Why do I like howard stern so much
>5) <Question 4 is optional>
>6) Will the fatter agnus work in the B2000?
>	(if anyone cares, I have a B2000 rev 4.2)
>
>7) Would somone be willing to list all the revisions
>of the A2000 vs. B2000 up to 4.2? or beyond?
>8) what's the latest version? etc etc etc...
>9) What's the deal with the B2000's keyboards SUCKING
>the first character on a cold/warm boot? Apparantly,
>there's a fix of a resistor cut in the keyboard housing...
>but, I'm not going in there until somone tells me how to do
>it...
>
> 
>The unanswered questions of the Universe Lie Above...
>C'mon amigians....
>
>
>E Pluribus// Contact me if you wish for whatever reason:
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The A2000 is the general term for the Commodore Amiga 2000 (TM) of which
there are two different "versions".  Version 1 was the original German
design which just put the A1000 in a box with some slots and only sold a
thousand or so machines back in 1987.  The other version is the US
designed version called the B2000 (look on the lefthand corner of your
motherboard and you will see "B2000CR" if your machine is the B2000)
which has the autoconfiged expansion slots and the full video slot and
the fatter Agnus chip.  This machine has sold 100s of thousands and is
still being sold all over the world.  Most people call this just the
A2000 and they are referring to the general usage of this term but by
the shear number of version 2 machines out in the world they end up
referring to the "B2000CR" machine.  As for revisions maybe Dave Haynie
or George Robbins could go over this.

Scott Hood

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