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- From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Offic. new C= Announcements!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Steven_Hurdle.009b@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 00:51:25 PST
- Organization: The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC
- Lines: 69
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- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM COMMODORE!!!
-
- Commodore Canada has officially announced a number of products.
-
- - Hard Drive for CDTV expansion slot (presumably 2.5" IDE ala A600)
-
- - DCTV upgrade card for CDTV (for CDTV video slot)
-
- - Amiga 4000 an official product!!! To be shown to the public at WOC
- Pasadena on September 12! It ***WILL*** have the AA ChipSet! Finally the
- speculation is about to end!!
-
- - AA ChipSet (as said above) officially announced.
-
- - 600HD officially announced and SHIPPING with *40* meg drive, not the 20
- meg the European versions have. It will retail for $799 Suggested Canadian
- Retail, with street price likely to be lower in most centres (definitely so
- if the units start selling in quanitity).
-
- - A570 officially announced. No word on whether it will have internal RAM
- and HD expansion like the UK final-revision vvrsion does (which was added
- at the last minute). Officially ready to ship any time now.
-
- - A3000T/040. Tower A3000 with '040 on a card in the CPU slot, 5 megs of
- RAM, and a 200 meg HD. The '030 and '882 slots are empty. I couldn't find
- out pricing, ther than to get an official comment that it would be "much
- better" than adding an '040 card to a normal A3000T.
-
- The A4000 and new CDTV add-ons to ship "this quarter" (read
- what you like into that), but I was told that it will **DEFINITELY** ship
- before the end of the year, come hell or high water. If you have the dosh
- sitting in the bank, you WILL be able to have a AA ChipSet equipped A4000
- before Christmas. These announcements were made at a local show called the
- Multimedia Event (hosted by Commodore and a local dealer). I had the scoop
- on all of them a few days before the show, though I can't reveal my
- source. And I have the scoop on one other (only slightly less official).
- AmigaVision 3.0 Professional! As far as I can discern, this was not an
- error on my source's part though I'm trying to validate that he didn't mean
- to say 2.0. Possibly this means there will be an AmigaVision 2.0
- 'consumer' release.
- Your guess is as good as mine.
-
- In case anyone's wondering about me since I've never posted to Usenet
- before (the system that I've been reading Usenet off of
- just got write access so I haven't been able to before now), I write the
- rumour column for the local club newsletter (AmUsers) and people have
- been sending me anything that they come across for inclusion. Anything
- locally known that is "spreadable" I hear about before most others. I have
- only sparce contacts outside of my locale, but should any kind souls out
- there have info that they ever might want to send to me please write me at:
-
- Steven Hurdle
- 2735 Scafe rd.
- Victoria BC
- Canada
- V9B-3W6
-
- Full credit or anonymity can be given at request! I may not be the
- Bandito, but it looks like I've been at the right place at the right time.
- Remember, this is all official other than the new AmigaVision version which
- is only semi-official. In case anyone's wondering, permission to
- officially admit to the world about the AA ChipSet and the A4000 was JUST
- given prior to the show. This may mean that it's the first official
- announcement anywhere,
- but is certainly the first in Canada that they knew of. Sept. 12 is
- just around the corner....
-
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