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In 1987 Commodore released the A500 - a cheaper version of the A1000 - which came in the "distinct" Commodore box. The basic system still used the 68000 processor, 512k ram, and OCS chipset but had got rid of the ZORRO slots in favour of a DMA slot at the side of the machine. The operating system had been upgraded to version 1.3, which included the Amiga Command Line Interface (Shell) allowing the user more functionality. This is the machine that kicked the entire Amiga world into focus and brought more people to the Amiga than has been done since. It was voted "Home Computer of the Year" (36.7) in 1991 by a selection of Greek and Italian publications

Specifications

• Motorola MC68000

• 7.16 MHz CPU

• 512k Chip RAM or 1 megabyte Chip RAM on motherboard

• Maximum 512k (A500) or 1 megabyte Chip RAM (A500+)

• 512k Fast RAM in trapdoor expansion bus (optional)

• Maximum 8 megabytes Fast RAM

• 512k RAM (A500) or 1 megabyte RAM (A500+) on motherboard

• 256k ROM or 512k ROM on motherboard

• 3.5 drive bay 2.5 drive mountable

• 3.5 880K internal floppy drive

• Integrated keyboard

• 2 button mouse

• A1000 sidecar expansion bus

• A500 trapdoor expansion bus

• Compact case

• External power supply port

• External floppy drive port

• RS-232 serial port

• Centronics parallel port

• 2 mouse/joystick ports

• Monochrome composite video port

• 15kHz colour RGB analogue video port

• 2 stereo audio output ports

Last updated on 13th August 2004

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