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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: 1995 Production Status?
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 11:04:30 GMT
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- Message-ID: <4275.6586T676T420@ci.educ.lu>
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- On 11-Jan-96 14:12:04, Wells Fargo Bank (wfblan@netcom.com) wrote to All ()
- about 1995 Production Status? (<wfblanDL0q04.I4M@netcom.com>):
-
- Hi
-
- >So, Amiga Tecyhnologies (PETERK, GBO)... Can you offer any year-end insight
- >as to how many A1200's and A4000T's were produced? How many were shipped to
- >dealers? And lastly, how many are presumed to have actually been purchased
- >by end-users?
-
- >From info and chatter I have read, I guess that there were somewhere between
- >90,000 and 100,000 total machines sold to end users in 1995, with close to
- >the 120,000 total produced? Can you verify this information?
-
- Well I'm not PETERK or GBO ... ;-)
- but here's what I did found in an interview with GBO and Petro Tyschtschenko in
- th French 'Amiga News' mag:
-
- the initial production line for 1995 supposed to be
-
- 25,000 A4000T and
- 100,000 A1200
-
- but due to delays in the production the numbers estimated for 1995
- (source from Petro at the Cologne fair in Nov'95) are:
-
- 6,000 A4000T
- 80,000 A1200
- 14,000 Amiga M1438S monitors
-
- for 1996 the goal AT want to reach is:
-
- 400,000 AMIGAs !!!!
- 100,000 monitors (not just the M1438s but also the new 15" and
- 17")
- 50,000 CD-ROM players
- + the to be (CeBIT '96 ???) introduced set-top boxes!
-
-
-
- >Also, it doesn't look too good when no New Press Releases are posted on
- >the Amiga Technologies WWW Page for two months. The above info and the
- >A1200+ Surfer pack, etc, are both items that could be 'officially' posted.
-
- Yep! The same mag writes that the surfer packs includes either a 14,400 or
- 28,800 PCMCIA modem (the user has the choice).
-
- If I do remember right, I did somewhere read (mags, newsgroups???) that the
- internet-software will be available later as stand-alone for all other AMIGA
- owners who do already own a modem.
-
-
- >Thanks for any info you offer. Keep up the good work. I am awaiting the
- >030/40 based a1200 variant. See my other post regarding minimal expected
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Let's hope it will be available with the sufer & magic pack too! ;-)
- The still same mag also reports that (according to GBO (source AMIGA Expo Paris
- 8th of December))
- * the new A1300 (or A1200+) will have a modified chipset in order to use
- standard HD floppy drives (from MSDOS/PCs), plus a faster CPU (OK this is
- known) and expandable RAM through SIMMs (known too).
-
- * the next to be released version of the OS will the the PPC-AmigaOS!
- (beginning 1987)
-
- * and that all *NEW* AMIGASs to come will have a *NEW* specific chipset!
- with the possibility to use PCI gfxcards!
- (though it wasn't mentioned if this will be the rumoured gfx chipset.
- It wasn't said neither that these new chips will be in the new A1300 (that
- would really be great;-))
-
- * in 1996 we will see AMIGA Techno ads in PC magazines!
-
- * there will probalby be an international developper conference in Germany
- in February 1996
-
- * the article about the IPISA'95 in Italie mentioned Doc. Kittel, saying that
- this new chipset will allow 24bit gfx, planar and chunky modes, 16 bit audio
- plus some ideas and functions from the AAA chipset (though AAA is dead 4e4
- :-()
- The Doc also told the audience that the highend PPC Amigas will be CHRP
- (Common Hardware Reference Platform, that is compatible with APLE & IBM PPCs)
- compatible, so it is possible to use standard components (read price
- reductions :-)). But the lowend PPC AMIGA will *NOT* be CHRP compatible.
-
- I know most of this was already told in one of the AMIGA conferences.
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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