This is an early sales brochure for the Commodore Amiga, later known as the Amiga 1000. This brochure was the first detail I had heard of the Amiga and was one of the few promotional things that Commodore did right for this great machine.
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Amiga Brochure - 1985
This is an early sales brochure for the Commodore Amiga, later known as the Amiga 1000. This brochure was the first detail I had heard of the Amiga and was one of the few promotional things that Commodore did right for this great machine.
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Introduce
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Amiga. Enter a new world of speed and power, a dazzling
universe of color and dimension. Unmatched by
other personal computers at any price.
Enter the world of Amiga“ And experience
the first personal computer to give you a creative
edge in business, the arts, education and
technology.
There’s never been a smarter personal com-
puter. Amiga is unmatched feature for feature.
Graphics, animation and sound unseen and
unheard of in a personal computer until now.
Power, speed and agility that leave all others
behind.
There’s never been a personal computer
that’s easier to use. In fact, Amiga lets you choose
the way you want to use it. Use symbols instead of
complicated commands or strange codes, by just
pointing the Amiga “mouse” at pictures of what-
ever you want to do. Or choose to enter your
command through the keyboard, an 89-key
The first
personal computer
that gives you
a creative edge.
detached console with 10 function keys, direc-
tional cursor keys and a numeric keypad for large-
scale data entry.
There’s never been a computer this useful.
Amiga will be your number cruncher, filing sys-
tem, audio-visual department, graphic designer,
print shop. And friend. For life.
Amiga. Experience its creativity and you
won’t wonder what you'd do with a computer.
You'll wonder how you ever lived without Amiga. NOW YOU’VE GOT THE POWER.
It’s being hailed as the vanguard of a new powerful
era in personal computing and Amiga takes you
there.
At the heart of the Amiga is a
Motorola-68000 microprocessor, a 16-bit proc-
essor with many attributes of a 32-bit MPU.
The 68000 data-handling capabilities pro-
vide incredible power. Not only can it handle
data in byte-size eight bit chunks but it can deal
with words of 16 bits in length or long words of 32
bits. In one single instruction the 68000 can flex
four times more muscle than the equivalent of an
eight-bit microprocessor.
How about enough power to run the average
spreadsheet, database and word processing file
all at the same time and still have room for more.
The Amiga can be expanded to accommodate up
to a whopping 8 megabytes of memory.
That’s for starters. But Amiga has magic.
In aset of three custom VLSI chips that act as
powerful co-processors and set the Amiga apart
from any personal computer ever made. Using
their own Direct Memory Access channels these
chips can autonomously operate Amiga’s graph-
ics, animation, sound generation, disk I/O and
peripheral control without taxing the 68000
which can keep crunching numbers at full speed.
Amiga has 256K of internal RAM and 256K
of writable control store. For those requiring
more memory, a 256K RAM pack can easily be
added to boost memory to a full 512K. In addi-
tion, as standard equipment, the Amiga sports an
internal 3.5 disk drive that accommodates dou-
ble-sided, double-density disks with a capacity
of 880K.
The Amiga and the 68000 together mark
the entry of home microcomputing into the era
of 16-bit microprocessing power.
Commodore Apple IBM IBM
AMIGA MACINTOSH Be PCAT
Base RAM: 256K 128K 256K 250K
Expandable RAM
Internal 512K 512k-board 640K 3MB
exchange
External 8MB not avail. not appl. not appl.
Base ROM 256K* 64K 40K 64K
*The initial Amiga 1000s will have a write protectable block of 256K additional
RAM and a bootstrap ROM as a substitute for the 256K ROM.
Therefore, the total system RAM is 512K expandable to 768K RAM inrernally.
