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Commodore Amiga 600
The Amiga 600, also known as the A600, is a home computer introduced in March 1992. It is the final Amiga model based on the Motorola 68000 and the 1990 Amiga Enhanced Chip Set. A redesign of the Amiga 500 Plus, it adds the option of an internal hard disk drive and a PCMCIA port. Lacking a numeric keypad, the A600 is only slightly larger than an IBM PC keyboard and weighing approximately 6 pounds. It shipped with AmigaOS 2.0, which was considered more user-friendly than earlier versions of the operating system.
Commodore Amiga 600
Like the A500, the A600 was aimed at the lower end of the market. Commodore intended it to revitalize sales of the A500-related line before the introduction of the 32-bit Amiga 1200. According to Dave Haynie, the A600 “was supposed to be US$50–60 cheaper than the A500, but it came in at about that much more expensive.” The A600 was originally to have been numbered the A300, positioning it as a lower-budget version of the Amiga 500 Plus.
Commodore Amiga 600
An A600HD model was sold with an internal 2.5″ ATA hard disk drive of either 20 or 40 MB. Amiga 600’s compatibility with earlier Amiga models is rather poor. Roughly one third of games and demos made for A1000 or A500 do not work on A600.
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