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- BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 1992 MAR 16 (NB) -- Commodore Belgium has
- unveiled a new addition to the Amiga range of personal computers,
- the A600.
-
- This new model is only 35cms wide and 24cms deep, but manages to
- pack a lot into its small size. This has been achieved by
- redesigning the keyboard and omitting the numeric keypad found on
- the right hand side of the A500 and A500 Plus, as well as taking
- advantage of advances in technology to reduce the size of the
- motherboard.
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- Despite its smaller footprint, there is still room for a 2.5-inch
- hard disk drive to be mounted internally.
-
- The A600 uses the Motorola 68000 CPU running at 7 MHz. Either 512KB
- or 1MB of RAM can be placed on the motherboard, and a further 1MB
- can he added by installing the A601 memory expansion unit in the
- trapdoor slot underneath the machine.
-
- Since the A600 is fitted with the 8375 Fat Agnus chip, all of this
- 2MB can be chip RAM, available to the co-processors. An 8373
- Denise chip is also used to give extra display modes. Additionally,
- an enhanced version of the 5719 Gary chip, called Gayle, has been
- fitted which supports the I/O card interface and the IDE Hard
- Drive interface.
-
- Version 2 of the Kickstart is held on a 512K ROM and Workbench
- 2.05 is provided on floppy disks. An IDE hard disk drive controller
- is also included as standard. There is no expansion slot on the left
- side of the machine. This has been replaced by a slot which will
- accept credit-card style memory cards (PCMCIA/IEDA standard). As
- on the A500s, an 880K floppy disk drive is housed on the right
- side of the computer. A full complement of interfaces has been
- provided on the back: serial and parallel; external disk drive;
- stereo audio, RGB video, composite video, and an RF modulator for
- connection to the antenna input of a television set. This last was
- available only as an optional extra on the A500 and was fitted
- externally.
-
- Mouse and joystick interfaces are to be found on the right
- side of the machine, next to the disk drive.
-
- (Peter Jones/19920316 Press contact: Dirk Verhetsel, Marketing
- Manager, Commodore Belgium, Tel.: +322 721 4870)
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