| Speed | 7.16 MHz |
| Memory | 256 KB |
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Flash is required to use this audio.
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| Release Date: |
7/24/1985 |
| Manufacturer: |
Commodore
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Original Retail Price:
Adjusted Inflation Price:
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$1,295.00
$2,624.37*
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The Amiga series is well known for the emotional attachment that
most of its owners tend to develop. It started with the 1000, created
by the late Jay Miner (who originally designed the Atari 2600 and
Atari's 8-bit line of computers). Miner and his team told investors
they were building a "game machine" because that was the only
way they could get venture capital at the time. Atari stepped up
with a timely loan just as Amiga Corp. was in trouble near the end
of the product, thinking they could acquire the technology for a song.
Commodore stepped up to the plate at the last hour however and
covered the loan and the rest is history. The Amiga is best known
for its multimedia capabilities.
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This computer is currently interactive in the Museum. |
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Amiga 1010 Disk Drive
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| Release Date: |
1/1/1985 |
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| The Amiga 1010 disk drive was available at the launch of the Amiga 1000. It has a passthru connector so you could add up to four floppy drives to the system.
Model : Amiga 1010
Type : 3.5" Floppy Disk
Media : Double Density
Capacity : 880K per disk
Interface: Amiga "Floppy" bus
The unit contained a Matsushita drive mechanism. |
This peripheral is currently interactive in the Museum. |
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Amiga 1020 Disk Drive
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| Release Date: |
1/1/1986 |
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| The Amiga 1020 disk drive was a 5.25" drive that was initially intended to be used with the "Transformer" PC emulation software for the Amiga. It uses an ALPS mechanism and a modified Commodore 1571 drive case.
Model : Amiga 1020
Type : 5.25" Floppy Disk Drive
Media : Double Density
Capacity : 360K per disk
Interface: Amiga "Floppy" bus
Dos : N/A (Computer controlled)
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This peripheral is currently interactive in the Museum. |
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Amiga Sidecar
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| Release Date: |
1/1/1986 |
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| Allowing the Amiga to run IBM PC programs
at full speed, the Sidecar was an 8086
computer inside this enclosure with a 5.25”
disk drive. This model shown here is the only
known remaining prototype
unit in the world. |
This peripheral is currently interactive in the Museum. |
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User Comments |
Jim Oblak on Thursday, January 24, 2013
The inside of this machine is beautiful. I believe it was this model that included the signatures of the designers/developers inside the plastic top of the CPU. The signatures were part of the plastic injection mold. They'd only be seen if someone disassembled the computer.
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Jeremy on Monday, April 25, 2011
Uhho. This video won't be available much longer. Google Video is going bye-bye soon.
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James on Friday, January 29, 2010
I have side car, worked well, but on reloading, ifound the MS DOS 31. startup disk was dammaged some how the amiga awrite file was corupeded, so could not get the amiga side to write to the hard drive. never have been able to find a copy of the correct cmos disk. it is a 3.1 msdos disk that includes the files awrite and aread.
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Syd Bolton on Thursday, October 12, 2006
This Amiga was purchased by myself in 1986 (the receipt is actually in the museum!). My software development "grew up" on the Amiga when I started to learn C and I think the same was true for a lot of people who originally had the Commodore 64 as their first computer. The Amiga will always hold a special place in my heart, I founded a company around it and made a lot of friends because of it. The memories from the Amiga time were ones you have for a lifetime. The Amiga wasn't a machine, it was a lifestyle.
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