Amiga 3000
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Personal computer, 1990, Commodore. The Amiga 3000, introduced in June 1990, is the high-end successor of the Amiga 2000: a 68030 with 68882, 32 bit Zorro III slots, the Enhanced Chip Set, a built-in flicker fixer for VGA monitors, a SCSI controller and the new AmigaOS 2.0, in a slimmer desktop case.
| Years | June 1990 to 1992 |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Commodore International |
| Processor | Motorola 68030 at 16 or 25 MHz with 68882 floating point unit |
| RAM | 2 MB (1 MB chip plus 1 MB fast), expandable to 2 MB chip and 16 MB fast on the motherboard |
| ROM | 512 KB Kickstart 1.3 and 2.0 (early units loaded Kickstart from disk) |
| Graphics | Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) with Amber flicker fixer, up to 1280 x 512, 32 colours from 4096, HAM; VGA output at 31 kHz |
| Sound | Paula, 4 channels of 8 bit PCM in stereo |
| Built-in storage | 3.5" floppy disk drive (880 KB), SCSI hard disk (40 to 100 MB) on the built-in WD33C93 controller |
| Expansion | 4 Zorro III slots, 2 ISA slots (shared), video slot, CPU slot |
| Ports | 2 mouse/joystick, serial, parallel, external floppy, RGB and VGA video, SCSI, keyboard, stereo audio |
| Operating system | AmigaOS 2.0 (2.04), Amiga Unix optional |
| Dimensions | 390 (W) x 380 (D) x 110 (H) mm |
| Price (1990) | US$3,299 (16 MHz), US$3,999 (25 MHz) |
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