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Amiga 2000
Hardware
Vendor:	Commodore Business Machines
Model:	Amiga 2000HD
CPU:	Motorola 68000@6MHz
Bus:	Zorro II
RAM:	2MB
Software
OS:	Amiga Workbench 2.04
Collection Data
Acquired:	1999
From:	Dan Miller
Relinquished:	2004
Relinquished to:	Rawson Self Storage Auction
Catalog Data
Location:	Location Unknown
Usage Info
Role:	Personal Workstation

Summary

After saving up in the Amiga Fund for a number of months, Dan Miller sold me this machine that had been sitting in the corner of the MVCS chem lab.

The machine proved to be of limited utility, but I certainly do miss it.

Historical Summary

Note that the information presented in this section was retrieved from my old personal website, The VAX Pirate's Lair, and is not likely to be entirely accurate or timely. Spelling errors have been kept intact for the purposes of historical preservation.

The first Amiga I ever owned. My first experience with this amazingly well-designed architecture was in 1992 when I worked on a DOE-funded animation project at New Mexico State University. Despite a low (by today's standards) clock rate, these machines boot up in under 20 seconds. They have really good video support, and were some of the first machines to bring multimedia to the masses. I bought this fine specimen in 1999 from my C++ teacher.

Historical Specifications

• Commodore Amiga 2000HD
• Motorola 68000 6MHz
• 1MB fast RAM, 1MB chip RAM
• Amiga ECS (enhanced chipset) architecture
• 100MB SCSI hard drive-on-a-card
• Zorro-II bus
• 2.04 Kickstart ROMs
• AmigaDOS 2.04