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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 T is for TOWER
Message-ID: <21392@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 8 May 91 16:42:17 GMT
References: <1991May5.134321.25252@sugar.hackercorp.com> <21307@cbmvax.commodore.com> <42094@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <42094@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
>does the A3000-T motherboard have any new features that make it 'more-better'
>than the A3000?  Could we be let in on any "secrets" in the hardware?  
>Please?

Sorry, but there's really no great new magic in the A3000T, it's basically a 
Tower A3000, just as you would expect.  One video, five Zorro III, four ISA
slots, lots of drive bays, monster power supply.  It does have an internal
speaker with automatic gain control, but that's hardly anything earth shaking.

The very first A3000 prototype, the one sometimes called "New York City", was
practically the same idea as the A3000T motherboard.  Big, in other words.  We
got the decision to shift to the "Cute Desktop Box" configuration by the next
revision, and overall I agreed with the decision, since not everyone needs or
wants something as big as an A3000T.

I didn't actually have much to do with the A3000T, since, as mentioned, there
wasn't a whole lot of new stuff in there.  That doesn't mean there isn't any
new engineering; any time you take a design and lay it out differently, things
may have to change just to make it work properlyt.  But no one sees this in the 
final result.


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Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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