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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. It was released in 1990 .

The Amiga 3000 came in a desktop box with a separate keyboard.


TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS


  • a Motorola 68030 processor at either 16 MHz or 25 MHz (The 16 MHz 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 16 MHz model shipped with a 68881, the 25 MHz model with a 68882)

  • 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''.