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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga 3000
Keywords: Robert X. Cringely teaser
Message-ID: <1401@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 21:39:24 GMT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Anybody read the "notes from the filed" page in this week's
Infoworld magazine?  An interesting teaser is offered:

"Amigas in every pot.  ... On this "kinder, gentler" theme, a
thousand points of light have been shining recently from Commodore
- makers of the best-selling computer in Germany - indicating that
the 68020-based Amiga 2500 and the 68030-based Amiga 3000 will be
seen at Comdex.

I like the 3000, which has a 19.4 MHz 68030, a 68882 floating-point
chip, and an 80386 on the motherboard.  The hermaphroditic machine
comes with five Amiga slots, five AT slots, 2 megs of RAM
expandable to 16, and compatibility with both Amiga and DOS
software.  The price is $5,200, with a megapixel color display and
an 80-meg SCSI drive."


Remember, this stuff is just rumor material.  ..but it is fun to
imagine what one could do with such a machine.  I still remeber the
almost-existed Commodore 900 which never got out of prototype, so
I'm not going to start holding my breath until I can actually touch
this one at my dealer.  I wouldn't take the quoted price too
seriously either.

--Bill