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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 01:14:41 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: AT's new modular Amiga
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4kct@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 09 Mar 96 G.nath wrote to All:
-
- >> So does anyone know anything more about the new "semi-professional" Amiga
- >> announced in AT's latest press release?
-
- >> Reading the blurb I get the feeling that it's a company version of the
- >> 1200 tower conversions.
-
- (Compuserve)
-
- From Michael Metz (Amiga Techn.)
-
- Hello All,
-
- I think you did not get the latest news from us through the internet. So I'll
- do a small overview about our current activities:
-
- 1. At CeBIT the new AMIGA Walker (this is the current name for the project)
- will be shown. This prototype AMIGA is a working modell of what we intend to
- have on the shelves in September
-
- 1. An 68EC030/40 MHz based AMIGA with AGA chipset, Quadspeed CD ROM,
- additional Enhanced Parallel Port (bidirectional), enhanced Serial (incl. MIDI
- support) and PC like HD floppy support. On the motherboard there is one slot
- for future expansions. This slot is meant as a CPU slot which shall be
- expandable to multiple bus and CPU systems. There is a floppy bay inside with
- AMIGA DD floppy support. The new design of case is able to be expanded to a
- tower slice by slice, so no more external stuff (except for scanners etc) is
- needed. Each 3rd party vendor will be able to receive those slices from AMIGA
- to built in his expansions.
-
- 2. The time scedule for the first PPC AMIGA got confirmed for spring 97. If it
- will be a ready selling machine by that time can not be confirmed. There will
- be an PPC AMIGA incl. some major ports of the OS at least as a prototype.
-
- 3. At CeBIT in Hannover there will be a devcon at the Motorola booth for all
- important commercial developers do develop key applications. Those
- applications shall be on the hardware and on the software side for the new PPC
- AMIGA. Mailings left our house (I hope we did not forget somebody). This is
- just a short resume.. please contact Gilles Bourdin (gbo@amiga.de) for further
- info.
-
- -Michael Metz
-
- PS: Sorry, I will not be able to keep contact because of training the german
- dealership (incl. ESCOM) for the next 6-8 weeks.
-
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