I have the main unit, keyboard, mouse and commodore 1084s monitor.
type computer
country USA
year 1990
os kickstart 3.1, Workbench 2.0
cpu Motorola mc 68025
speed 25 MHz
ram 6 MB
rom 512 kB
hd 100MB
disk 2*880kB
graphic 320 x 256 (32) + many
colors 4096
sound 4 voice 8 bit pcm
disk 3,5″ (500, 500plus)
ports 2* joysticks, serial, centronics, stereo, RGB, disk, SCSI, keyboard,
Amiga 200 CPU -bus and 4* Amiga Zorro II/III bus
The Commodore Amiga 3000 — The High-End Amiga Workstation
Released in June 1990, the Commodore Amiga 3000 was the most powerful and sophisticated Amiga produced up to that point — a genuine professional workstation that placed the 25 MHz Motorola 68030 processor, the Enhanced Chip Set (ECS), Zorro III expansion slots, and a built-in flicker fixer in a tower chassis designed for demanding professional use. Priced at $3,299 at launch, it competed directly with Unix workstations and high-end Macintosh configurations while offering multimedia capabilities that neither could match at any price.
The 68030 and ECS
The 25 MHz 68030 processor provided a significant performance improvement over the 68000 of earlier Amigas, including an integrated memory management unit (MMU) and a 256-byte data cache. The Enhanced Chip Set improved the Agnus chip (now called Fat Agnus/Super Agnus) to support higher display resolutions and more chip RAM, and added the flicker fixer — a scan doubler that eliminated the interlace flicker that had afflicted high-resolution Amiga displays, making the A3000 practical for extended professional use with standard VGA monitors.
Zorro III
The Zorro III expansion bus was a 32-bit improvement over the 16-bit Zorro II of the A2000, providing the bandwidth required for high-speed graphics cards, SCSI-2 controllers, and networking hardware. A3000 users could configure their machines with substantial RAM expansions, professional graphics boards, and networking capabilities that made it competitive with Unix workstations at a significantly lower price. The A3000 running Unix (Amiga’s own AmigaOS or the available A/UX and NetBSD ports) was a genuinely capable engineering and scientific workstation.
Unix Capability
The A3000 was significant as the first Amiga officially sold with Unix capability — Commodore offered the machine with AMIX (Amiga Unix), a System V Release 4 port. This opened the A3000 to professional Unix users who wanted the Amiga’s multimedia capabilities alongside standard Unix tools and software. While AMIX was not widely adopted, it demonstrated Commodore’s ambitions for the A3000 as a serious professional platform.