Released in spring 1992 as a replacement to the A500+,
the A600 weighed just 6lbs (the smallest Classic Amiga ever!).
This 14 deep x 9.5" wide x 3" high system was aimed at the console market,
adding very little to the operating system or the Amiga as a whole.
It only had 1mb of chip memory, ECS and Workbench 2.05.
It shrunk the basic system by doing away with the numeric keypad leaving
just 78 keys, and became the nearest the Amiga has to a laptop.
It did, however introduce the PCMCIA slot at the side of machine allowing
the use of ram cards; CD drives and disks that fitted into this port.
The fatter Agnus chip as standard also allowed the addressing of up to 2Mb
Chip ram as standard, with the maximum ram expansion (with PCMCIA) being 6Mb.
This was yet another attempt by Commodore to aim the Amiga towards the
console market by selling it as a games machine with a keyboard,
which didn't work.
The numeric keypad was sorely missed by most Amigans who would not
touch it with a barge pole.
Whatever the reasons Commodore chose to produce it, it was the last of
the 16 bit Amigas and was the closest we have had to a laptop yet.
In fact, it forms the basis of the DIY laptop known as Suzanne.
amiga.emugaming.com
Released in the summer of 1992 as a replacement to the A500+,
the A600 weighed just 6lbs (the smallest Classic Amiga ever!).
This 14 deep x 9.5" wide x 3" high system was aimed at the console market,
adding very little to the operating system or the Amiga as a whole.
It only had 1mb of chip memory, ECS and Workbench 2.05.
It shrunk the basic system by doing away with the numeric keypad leaving
just 78 keys, and became the nearest the Amiga has to a laptop.
It did, however introduce the PCMCIA slot at the side of machine allowing
the use of ram cards; CD drives and disks that fitted into this port.
The fatter Agnus chip as standard also allowed the addressing of up to 2Mb
Chip ram as standard, with the maximum ram expansion (with PCMCIA) being 6Mb.
There was a A600HD model which had an internal 40Mb hard-disk.
(www.old-computers.com)
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| Manufacturer |
Commodore |
Name |
Amiga 600 |
| Type |
Homecomputer |
Origine |
USA |
| Introduction Date |
March 1992 |
End of production |
??? |
| Built in Language |
??? |
Keyboard |
Full-stroke keyboard, 78 key (no numeric keypad) |
| CPU |
Motorola MC68000 |
Speed |
7.16 Mhz |
| Coprocessor |
Agnus (MMU), Daphne (video), Portia (Sound & I/O) |
Amount of Ram |
1 MB, Expandable to 2MB Chip RAM Maximum RAM expansion 6MB with PCMCIA |
| Vram |
None |
Rom |
512 KB (AmigaOS 2.x) |
| Text Modes |
60 x 32 / 80 x 32 |
Graphic Modes |
320 x 256 / 320 x 512 / 640 x 256 / 640 x 512 |
| Colors |
32 (for 320 x X modes), 16 (for 640 x X modes) among 4096 + two special modes EHB (64 colors) and HAM (4096 colors) |
Sound |
Four channel stereo sound |
| Size / Weight |
14'' deep x 9.5'' wide x 3'' high / 6 lbs |
Built in Media |
one 3.5" disk-drive (880k) |
| I/O Ports |
Floppy Disk (DB23), Mouse/Joystick/Lightpen (2 DB9), Serial (RS-232, PC-compatible), Parallel (Centronics, PC-compatible), Video RGB analogue (DB23 15 kHz), Colour Composite (RCA), RF Modulator (RCA), PCMCIA Card Slot, Internal AT IDE connector |
OS |
Amiga DOS Release 2 + WorKBench 2.x |
| Power Supply |
External |
Introduction Price |
??? |
| Sold |
??? |
Serial Number |
??? |
| Other Extras |
None |
Bought Where |
Avelgem |
| Bought When |
??? |
Condition |
Good |
| Price Paid |
- |
Specs of my Model |
- |
| Setup Today |
??? |
