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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What's in a name?
Message-ID: <2336@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 23:44:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2336
Posted: Sun Sep 13 23:44:32 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Sep-87 04:29:32 EDT
References: <14218@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: A/B2000 AmigaMail Sales forcasts international s/w

In article <14218@amdahl.amdahl.com> (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
$I just received the July/August issue of Amiga Mail from CBM today...
$and was reading thru the availability announcement for the "A500/A2000
$Technical Reference Manual" ($40, 275 pages), when towards the bottom
$there were some
$references made to "B2000 Jumpers", "A2000/B2000 Keyboard Connector", and
$"Schematics (A2000, B2000, A500)".
$
$OK, I'll byte ... what's a B2000?

The original Amiga 2000 designed in Germany and sold everywhere EXCEPT the
U.S since the Spring was internally designated as the "A2000".  In the U.S,
it was only shipped to developers, and to some sales reps for demonstration
purposes.

The B2000 is the U.S designed and assembled Amiga 2000.  There are only
small differences as far as most users are concerned.  The main difference
is that the B2000 has 1Mb RAM on the motherboard, and the A2000 has 512K
on the motherboard, and 512K on a card which is pre-installed into the CPU
expansion slot.

$/kim

	Paul.