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960102
M O R E O N T H E " S U R F E R "
A C C E L E R A T O R F O R . . . A 6 0 0 ( ! ! )
I N T E R N A T I O N A L A M I G A S O C I E T Y
Here's our first issue of 1996 - I hope it's just the start of an enjoyable
computing year for us all.
The previous information on the Amiga "Surfer" was very cryptic, so I thought
I'd send this new, more informative story out right away. I noticed this one
refers to a February ship date, not January.
The second story is really amazing! It seems someone has come out with an
accelerator board for the A-600, of all things! The interesting thing here is
that an accelerated A-600 in a PAWS case could make a really nice Amiga
portable. We have no idea at this time whether the accelerator would fit in
the PAWS case along with an Amiga, but it's a possibility. The total cost is
another issue that might make it impractical, depending on what you'd have to
pay for a used A-600.
The final item, on the attempt in Australia to get an International Amiga
Society off the ground, is actually an older story but one we'd not carried
before.
Enjoy, and we hope your new year is off to a good start!
Brad
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The Amiga Surfer: Amiga goes Internet
Amiga Technologies will release The new Amiga 1200 bundle "Amiga
Surfer" in February.
The package includes an Amiga 1200 with 2MB RAM, a 260 MB
harddrive and a 14.400 Baud modem as well as a complete Internet
bundle that will enable the user to access to all popular Internet
services. Web-Surfing, FTP file transfer (new drivers, updates, patches,
shareware and freeware), IRC electronic teleconferencing with unlimited
amount of participants and email with graphic, sound and animation
support.
To make the start-up as easy as possible, a country specific telephone
cable is provided with the modem. Before accessing to the Internet, the
user can register himself at IBM and will receive, if he registers before
31st of March, a credit of 100 free access hours.
For any question, the customer can access our homepage anytime and
consult most actual information.
The package also contains the popular "Amiga Magic" bundle of
productivity software, featuring a word processor, a spreadsheet, a
database, an organizer and a graphic program.
The complete system, including the Amiga 1200, the productivity and
Internet software, the modem and connection with free credits will be
available from retail at a price of DM 1198.- incl. 15% VAT.
Regards,
Gilles Bourdin
Gilles Bourdin Tel +49 6252 709 195
Amiga Technologies Fax +49 6252 709 520
Berliner Ring 89 email: gbo@amiga.de
D-64625 Bensheim HTTP://www.amiga.de
Gilles Bourdin / Amiga Technologies GmbH
Public Relations Manager
gbo@ramses.fdn.org
gbo@worldnet.net
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Apollo 620
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- World's First Accelerator For The Amiga 600!
ACT Electronics, Europe's leading manufacturer of accelerators for Amiga,
is proud to present a new accelerator card for Amiga 600 which makes
this machine 10 times as fast! This makes it possible to use A600 for
professional applications like word processing, databases, spreadsheets,
multimedia presentations (e.g. Scala) and so on.
Specifications for the Apollo 620:
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* 10 times speed increase, or more on math intensive applications!
* Mounted internally on top of the 68000
* 68020 CPU running on 25 MHz!
* 68882 math co-processor running on 25 MHz included!
* Approximately as fast as the Amiga 4000! (030 version)
* Up to 8 MB of 32-bit RAM! (One SIMM socket of 1, 2, 4 or 8 MB)
* Uses cheap and easily available standard 72-pin SIMM without parity
* PCMCIA friendly - PCMCIA port available up to 4 MB
* Autoconfiguring memory
Retail price per 23/11 1995: NOK 1380,-
(Norwegian Krones. USD 1 ~= NOK 6.2)
The Apollo range covers a complete series of 68020, 68030, 68040 and 68060
accelerators for all Amiga computers. Contact your local distributor, or
DataKompaniet directly, for more information about the other Apollo
products.
E.g.: World's Fastest Amiga 1200 with Apollo 1240! 33 Mhz 68040 with FPU
and MMU!
DataKompaniet ans in Trondheim, Norway, is the Scandinavian distributor of
the complete Apollo range. We ship world-wide. Check out our WWW server for
more information.
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DataKompaniet ans
Trondheim Innovation Centre
Prof. Brochs gt. 6
N-7030 Trondheim
Norway
Phone: +47 7354 0375 Fax: +47 7394 3861
World Wide Web: http://www.interlink.no/datakompaniet
E-mail: datakompaniet@interlink.no
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Tor Rune Skoglund DataKompaniet ans
Tech. Manager/Partner Trondheim Innovation Centre
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| Announcing : The International Amiga Society |
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ANNOUNCEMENT
We're a group of Amiga owners engaged in building the
INTERNATIONAL AMIGA SOCIETY (IAS)
a world-wide association of Amiga practitioners, owners, developers,
dealers and believers in the ideals and future of the Amiga platform.
In view of past experiences and present-day circumstances we feel it
necessary to explore all possible ways of protecting our investment
in money, time, skills and dedication and furthermore use available
technologies to forge an intelligent and effective form of association
between all interested parties. Our first aim is to create a world-wide
database of all existing user groups so we can communicate among
ourselves with e-mail and/or mailing-lists and other devices. We are
herewith inviting everyone reading this to communicate our request to
their user group and to send the following information:
1.SnailMail address
2.E-mail or BBS address/contact
3.Number of members
Please send it to
IAS-Register@artworks.apana.org.au
or to
P.O. Box 201
Kingsbury 3083
Victoria, Australia
or fill out the registration form at
http://ArtWorks.apana.org.au/IAS/Register.html
For your consideration, we will then send you more detailed information
about the organization and its plans.
Groups or individuals representing groups who have access to internet
web-browsing can use our home-page at
http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~dangermo/IAUG/index.html
or at
http://Snark.apana.org.au/IAS/Workbench/
It is of uppermost importance for this database to be as complete as
possible so be so kind and answer ASAP.
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| Queries to IAS-Queries@ArtWorks.apana.org.au |
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--
James Burton (James@Snark.apana.org.au) | Every jumbled pile of person has a
Kingsbury, Melbourne, Australia | thinking part that wonders what the
WWW : http://Snark.APANA.org.au/james/ | part that isn't thinking isn't thinking
of
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