From: Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Offic. new C= Announcements!
Distribution: world
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:51:25 PST
Organization: The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM COMMODORE!!!
 
Commodore Canada has officially announced a number of products.
 
- Hard Drive for CDTV expansion slot (presumably 2.5" IDE ala A600)
 
- DCTV upgrade card for CDTV (for CDTV video slot)
 
- Amiga 4000 an official product!!!  To be shown to the public at WOC
Pasadena on September 12!  It ***WILL*** have the AA ChipSet!  Finally the
speculation is about to end!!
 
- AA ChipSet (as said above) officially announced.
 
- 600HD officially announced and SHIPPING with *40* meg drive, not the 20
meg the European versions have.  It will retail for $799 Suggested Canadian
Retail, with street price likely to be lower in most centres (definitely so
if the units start selling in quanitity).
 
- A570 officially announced.  No word on whether it will have internal RAM
and HD expansion like the UK final-revision vvrsion does (which was added
at the last minute).  Officially ready to ship any time now.
 
- A3000T/040.  Tower A3000 with '040 on a card in the CPU slot, 5 megs of
RAM, and a 200 meg HD.  The '030 and '882 slots are empty.  I couldn't find
out pricing, ther than to get an official comment that it would be "much
better" than adding an '040 card to a normal A3000T.
 
The A4000 and new CDTV add-ons to ship "this quarter" (read
what you like into that), but I was told that it will **DEFINITELY** ship
before the end of the year, come hell or high water.  If you have the dosh
sitting in the bank, you WILL be able to have a AA ChipSet equipped A4000
before Christmas.  These announcements were made at a local show called the
Multimedia Event (hosted by Commodore and a local dealer).  I had the scoop
on all of them a few days before the show, though I can't reveal my
source.  And I have the scoop on one other (only slightly less official).
AmigaVision 3.0 Professional!  As far as I can discern, this was not an
error on my source's part though I'm trying to validate that he didn't mean
to say 2.0.  Possibly this means there will be an AmigaVision 2.0
'consumer' release.
Your guess is as good as mine.
 
In case anyone's wondering about me since I've never posted to Usenet
before (the system that I've been reading Usenet off of
just got write access so I haven't been able to before now), I write the
rumour column for the local club newsletter (AmUsers) and people have
been sending me anything that they come across for inclusion.  Anything
locally known that is "spreadable" I hear about before most others.  I have
only sparce contacts outside of my locale, but should any kind souls out
there have info that they ever might want to send to me please write me at:
 
Steven Hurdle
2735 Scafe rd.
Victoria BC
Canada
V9B-3W6
 
Full credit or anonymity can be given at request!  I may not be the
Bandito, but it looks like I've been at the right place at the right time.
Remember, this is all official other than the new AmigaVision version which
is only semi-official.  In case anyone's wondering, permission to
officially admit to the world about the AA ChipSet and the A4000 was JUST
given prior to the show.  This may mean that it's the first official
announcement anywhere,
but is certainly the first in Canada that they knew of.  Sept. 12 is
just around the corner....

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