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Subject: Re: A2000, B2000, what's the DEAL!???
Keywords: Revisions, A2000, B2000...etc etc...
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Date: 15 Nov 90 10:57:28 GMT
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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..

Once upon a time there was a Amiga 1000 and a sidecar. And Commodore said
'We should put the sidecar inside the Computer'. And so Commodore in
Braunschweig (Germany) has built the A2000 and the XT-Card. The A2000 is
quite similar to the A1000, they just added the slots and 512 kB Ram
instead of 256 kB. So they managed to produce a Amiga with a XT inside
in a short time.
Later Commodore developed the B2000, which has several differences in Hardware:
- It has 1MB Ram on board.
- The Video-Slot was extended
- The keyboard sometimes have problems with the first sign you type in. This
  problem can be solved by removing a condensator. Furthermore some versions
  of the AT-Emulator (the software -- not the AT-Board) do not run with the
  B2000, if the wrong version of keyboard is used.
- The B2000 is prepared to use 1MB Chip-Mem. You just need the new Agnus, some
  jumpers and a knife to interrupt a connection.
So - that's all I can remember, but there may be some more differences!

Regards
   Thomas Stuempfig
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