| Amiga 3000 - 01 |
Three Amiga 3000 models were produced : 3000, 3000UX, and 3000T. The 3000 was the desktop model (pictured here) which shipped with flippable 1.3 or 2.0 AmigaOS Roms. Amiga 3000T, released in 1991, was a tower system with built-in speaker, 32Mb RAM, high-resolution mouse, 100 Mb hard-drive, a lot of Zorro II slots, a variety of drive bays, and a 25Mhz 68030 with a 68882 math coprocessor. The 3000UX shipped with "AMIX", Commodore's System-5 derived UNIX which was very nice and came with X-windows. It was commodore's only serious attempt to get into the UNIX workstation market, and a noble effort that unfortunately failed utterly. Notice it exists some rare Amiga 3000: the 3000/16 (speed is only 16 MHz) and the Amiga 3000+ which uses an AGA video chip and a DSP. The 3000+ was a prototype only. A few units are known to exist, but they are not supported. The DSP was able to be a software modem in some configurations, which was extremely cool. (www.old-computers.com) |
| Manufacturer | Commodore | Name | Amiga 3000 |
| Type | Professionial Computer | Origine | USA |
| Introduction Date | 1990 | End of production | ??? |
| Built in Language | ??? | Keyboard | ??? |
| CPU | Motorola MC68030 | Speed | 16 or 25 Mhz |
| Coprocessor | Super Denise (video),Fat Agnus (memory manager, blitter & copper), Paula (I/O, sound), 68881 or 68882 (math processor), SCSI DMAC | Amount of Ram | 1-2 MB Chip RAM, up to 18 Mb (with 16Mb FAST) and theoricaly to 4 Gb. |
| Vram | ??? | Rom | 512 Kb |
| Text Modes | 60 x 32 / 80 x 32 | Graphic Modes | 12 graphic modes : from 320 x 240 to 960 x 512 |
| Colors | 32 (for 320 x X modes), 16 (for 640 x X modes) among 4096 + 2 Special modes : EHB 64 colors and HAM 4096 colors on static display | Sound | Four 8 bit PCM voices |
| Size / Weight | ??? | Built in Media | one 3.5" disk-drive (880k), SCSI-2 Hard-Drive |
| OS | AMIGA WorKBench 2.0x, Unix System (SVR4) V operating system | I/O Ports | Video (RGB, Composite), Parallel/Centronics, RS232c, SCSI, VGA, stereo sound, joysticks (atari) & mouse, 4 Zorro III internal slots, 2 ISA slots, 1 CPU slot, 1 video slot, external floppy, external SCSI-2, keyboard, Stereo audio output |
| Power Supply | Internal | Introduction Price | Amiga 3000T (100Mb HD) : $4498 (USA, 1991), Amiga 3000T (200Mb HD) : $4998 (USA, 1991) |
| Sold | ??? | Serial Number | ??? |
| Other Extras | Commodore 1942, Ram expansion board, A2386SX, Picasso II, Ariadne II | Bought Where | Sint Denijs Westrem |
| Bought When | end 1997 | Condition | Good |
| Price Paid | 5000 Bfr. | Specs of my Model | ??? |
| Setup Today | ??? |
Amiga3000-01: Bought from a guy in Sint-Denys Westrem - Ghent (think it was end 1997). I worked in Kortrijk at that time and I remember it was snowing really heavy. I paid 5.000 Bfr. For the main unit with commodore 1942 monitor, lots of magazines, manuals and software. A commodore 386sx bridgeboard, a Picasso II display card, a memory expansion card, two disk drives, 52Mb HD, 105Mb HD and Kickstart 3.0 Roms were installed in it. I also paid 4.000 Bfr. for an external CD-ROM (way too much), which later I used the case from to built in my plextor SCSI writer. Today the system runs like this: Amiga 3000 Ram expansion board A2386SX Picasso II Ariadne II IBM DPES-31080 HD (1Gig) External Syquest Syjet 1.5Gig removable HD, which is working very well. I am using this system as my main Amiga On April 24, 2002 I decided to desolder the batteries and bought a soldering iron (really cheap one). Didn’t work so I bought another (not so cheap) soldering iron, also without success. I lent a heavy duty (very expensive) Weller soldering iron at work but the damned solder still didn’t want to melt. Tried till 400°C and stopped (didn’t want to end up with an exploded battery) I decided to use some force and removed the damned battery off the motherboard. Did the same with the bridgeboard. |