Amiga 3000

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Commodore Amiga 3000

Type	Personal computer
Release date	June 1990
Discontinued	1992
Operating system	Amiga OS 2.0
CPU	Motorola 68030 @ 16 or 25 MHz
Memory	2 MB
Predecessor	Amiga 2000
Successor	Amiga 4000

The A3000, also known as the Commodore Amiga 3000, was a much more serious proposition to build a professional multimedia computer than the previous A2000 effort. It was released in June 1990, three years after the 2000.

The Amiga 3000 came in a compact desktop "lunchbox" case with a separate keyboard.

[edit] Technical Specifications

• Motorola 68030 processor at either 16 MHz or 25 MHz (The 16 MHz models were discontinued soon after).
• 2 MB of memory (configured as 1 MB chip RAM and 1 MB 32-bit Fast RAM), expandable to a total of 18 MB onboard.
• 68881 or 68882 FPU coprocessor (The 16 MHz model was shipped with a 68881, the 25 MHz model with a 68882)
• ECS chipset.
• SCSI interface and a Quantum LPS40S (40 MB), LPS52S (50 MB) or LPS105S (100 MB) 3.5" Hard Drive.
• Built-in 'flicker fixer' which enabled the use of a VGA monitor.
• The A3000 unlike most Amiga models, supported both ROM based Kickstarts and disk based Kickstarts, although not simultaneously. Kickstart V1.4 and 2.0 were actually special versions of Kickstart which loaded the real Kickstart from a ROM-Image file called DEVS:Kickstart.

One could increase the amount of Fast RAM by adding ZIP DRAM chips, these were notoriously difficult to fit - and were available in two varieties, Page Mode or Static Column.

Other models included the A3000UX bundled with UNIX System V Release 4, and the A3000T tower computer.

An enhanced version, the Amiga 3000+, with the AGA chipset and an AT&T DSP chip was produced to prototype stage but never launched, instead Commodore replaced the A3000 with the cost-reduced A4000.

[edit] See also

• Amiga models and variants

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v • d • e AmigaOS 4 Companies Amiga, Inc. • Hyperion Entertainment • ACube Systems Compatible hardware A1200 • A3000 • A3000T • A3000UX • A4000 • A4000T • Pegasos II • Sam440ep • Sam440ep-flex

The A3000 designation was also used on an Acorn Archimedes model.