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Commodore Amiga 3000T

Amiga 3000T
Developer: Commodore International
Launch date: October 1991

In October 1991, Commodore introduced the A3000T, a tower version of their popular A3000 machine. The A3000T uses a 25Mhz 68030 processor, with a 68882 maths-coprocessor, as well as 2MB of 32-bit ram as standard, expandable up to 18MB actually on the motherboard. As it was released before SIMMs became a standard it uses Zip ram, a slower alternative. If you want an SIMM adapter, you will need to buy a device from mail order. The workstation was aimed at the professional multimedia market, as reflected in the price of the machine- $4498 for an A3000T with a 100MB SCSI hard drive, or $4998 for the 200MB version. It also came with key switch on the case. These are used in the commercial market to disable a machine when it is not being used, locking the mouse and keyboard.

The professional image of the machine was reinforced by David Archembault, former director of Business markets at CBM, stating,

It is a multimedia workstation combines all the capabilities of the A3000 with an unprecedented level of expandability and power.

This was shown through the HUGE array of drive bays available- two 3.5 inch drives, one 5.25 inch mounted horizontally; and two 5.25-inch half height drives mounted vertically. Behind these drives there is space for two more internal 5.25 drives, or any other expansion. The Workstations expansion slot includes up to 5 Zorro III cards, 4 Bridgeboard PC cards for use with emulation, a video slot for internal video and a processor slot for a 68040/060 accelerator card.

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