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Amiga 600

The successor to the A500+ was released in the summer of 1992.  The A600, which weighed just 6lbsand measured 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 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.

Specifications


CPU:

  • Motorola (R) 68000, 16/32 bit 7.16 MHz NTSC Multi-Chip coprocessor system for DMA, Video, Graphics and Sound

MEMORY:

  • Expandable to 2MB Chip RAM Maximum RAM expansion 6MB with PCMCIA 512KB ROM

SOFTWARE:

  • AmigaDOS (TM) Release 2 Multitasking Operating System in ROM Workbench 2.X and Utilities software

KEYBOARD:

- Integral 78 Key International

MOUSE:

  • Opto-mechanical 2-button design

DISK DRIVES:

  • Built-in 3.5-inch 880 KB floppy disk External 3.5-inch floppy disk Internal IDE hard disk drive (optional)

GRAPHIC MODES:

  • Colour palette of 4096 colours Selectable resolutions Supports full overscan.

VIDEO DISPLAY OUTPUT:

  • RGB analogue 15 kHz Horizontal Scan Rate Colour Composite RF Modulated.

SOUND:

  • Four channel stereo sound

DIMENSIONS:

  • 14" deep x 9.5" wide x 3 high

WEIGHT:

  • Approx. 6 lbs.

POWER REQUIREMENTS:

  • Switching power supply 23 watts

INTERFACES:

External:

  • 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:

  • Internal AT IDE connector
A600 CONFIGURATIONS


A600 P

Amiga 600 with Motorola 68000 Processor, internal 3.5 880K Floppy Drive, 1 MB RAM Integral Keyboard Release 2.X Operating System and Utilities 2-button Mouse.

A600HD

Amiga 600 with Motorola 68000 Processor, internal 3.5 880K Floppy Drive, 1 MB RAM Internal 40MB IDE Hard Drive Integral Keyboard Release 2.X Operating System and Utilities 2-button Mouse.

 

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