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Technical Specifications

The Amiga 1000, The machine that brought Multimedia to the masses in 1985, was a machine ahead of its time. bringing 4096 on screen colors, 4 channel stereo sound, up to 8 meg of ram, and an 880K floppy disk drive, and the first and last computer with a nifty keyboard garage area under the main case for easy storage of the keyboard. With a Multi-tasking, easy to use OS this machine was a definite marvel of modern technology.

Weight/Dimensions/Power:
  • Approx 6 lbs
  • 110 volt/60Hz 23 watts

CPU:

  • Motorola MC68000, clocked at 7 Megahertz .
  • 32 bit data path.
  • 24 bit address space.
  • Multi-Chip coprocessor system for enhanced DMA.

Memory and Expansion Capabilities:

  • 256K chip ram.
    Expandable to 2 meg with expansion cards..
  • Support for 8 megabytes of fast ram.
  • CPU slot (86pin).

Software:

  • 192K ROM
  • AmigaDOS 1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3 /kickstart/software/manuals.

Disk Drives:

  • 1 internal 3.5 inch 880K disk drive.

Pointing Devices:

  • Opto-mechanical 2 button mouse

 

 

 

 

Interfaces:
  • 89 key external keyboard with built in numaric keypad and cursor keys.
  • 2 Mouse/joystick ports.
  • 1 Serial.
  • 1 Parallel.
  • 23 pin Video port(RGB analog or RGB composite).
  • Color Composite output.
  • Right and left RCA Stereo output.
  • External floppy disk drive port.

CPU Expansion BUS:

  • 86 pin local bus edge connector.
    Supports High Speed 32 bit ram expansion.
    Math Coprocessor expansion.
    CPU accelerators. (020)
  • SOUND:

    • 8 bit audio with four voices configured as two stereo channels.
    • Built in sound buffer up to 800kb nominal
    • 6 bit volume
    • Unlimitied speech to text synthisis

    Graphic modes/Video Display Output:

    • OCS Custom Chip Set
      supports 320x200 up to 640 x 400.
      Built in NTSC/PAL video resolutions
    • 2 to 4096 user definable colors froma palette of 4096.
    • Compatible with RGB/Analog, VGA/SVGA or Multiscan monitors.
    • NTSC color compsite output.

     

     

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