A3000

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.

The A3000 designation was also used on an Acorn Archimedes model.