Commodore Amiga 600
Developer: Commodore International
Launch date: March 1992 |
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.
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