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The A3000, also known as the Commodore Amiga 3000, was a much more serious proposition to build a professional multimedia computer than the previous A2000 effort.
The Amiga 3000 came in a desktop box with a separate keyboard. It featured:
- a Motorola 68030 processor at either 16Mhz or 25Mhz (The 16Mhz models were discontinued soon after).
- 2Mb of memory (configured as 1Mb chip ram and 1Mb 32bit Fast ram), expandable to a total of 18Mb onboard.
- a 68881 or 68882 FPU coprocessor
- the ECS chipset.
- a SCSI interface and a Quantum 40Mb or 100Mb 3.5" Hard Drive.
- a built-in 'flicker fixer' which enabled the use of a VGA monitor.
One could increase the amount of Fast RAM by adding ZIP DRAM chips, these were notoriously difficult to fit - and were available in two varieties, Page Mode or Static Column.
Other models included the A3000UX bundled with UNIX System V Release 4, and the A3000T tower computer.
An enhanced version, the Amiga 3000+, with the AGA chipset and an AT&T DSP chip was produced to prototype stage but never launched, instead Commodore replaced the A3000 with the cost-reduced A4000.
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The A3000 designation was also used on an Acorn Archimedes model.de:Amiga 3000 fr:Amiga 3000