July 23, 1985 · Computer or hardware
Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985)
Announced July 23, 1985. First shipments in September, without a monitor.
The first Amiga had custom graphics, sound and DMA chips and real multitasking, designed by Amiga Corporation.
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Facts
- Date
- July 23, 1985
- Kind
- Computer or hardware
- Maker or publisher
- Commodore
- CPU
- Motorola 68000
- CPU speed
- 7.16 MHz
- RAM installed
- 256 KB
- Colors
- 4096
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