| From: | Kennedy, Bob |
| Date: | 2 Jun 2000 at 13:20:53 |
| Subject: | Re: Disks & Drives & A3000T |
David Oakes [doakes@accesswave.ca] said, in part:
>
> There weren't many of them. IIRC, all of them were hand built by
> employees at C= (without senior management approval) in the last few
> weeks/months before the bankruptcy. Maybe 200 or so. All were
> quickly snapped up within the North American market, by people who
> were in the right place at the right time.
>
> >I am totally unaware of what they came with...
> >So I stand corrected...
>
> I'd like to add that there were A3000D machines that came with HD
> drives as well. Not all of them, but a fairly large number of them
> did, it was the primary reason that Chinon was making HD drives for
> Amigas and the money for them that C= still owed them is the reason
> that Chinon has refused to make any more since the bankruptcy.
>
>
David, I think you may be confusing the A3000T with the almost mythical
1993-94 C= A4000T. (You know, the one with the pointy ears & single horn in
the center of its faceplate.) The May 1991 issue of Amiga World magazine
(U.S.A.) carried the official product announcement of the A3000T. AW further
stated that they had used one in house for several weeks. Knowing what lead
times for American magazines tend to be, I'd guess that they received the
A3000T no later than the end of February 1991. Our studio received ours in
late May of 1992.
Best,
Bob Kennedy
bob.kennedy@ssa.gov
A4000T (QuickPac version) CS-060/PPC233 Toaster/Flyer CD-R 128MB IFX & more
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