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For Immediate Release Contact: Tom Shepherd September 8, 1992 Director of Marketing (416) 499-4292

COMMODORE@ ANNOUNCES 68040 @ 3000T

AGIN COURT, ONTARIO -- Commodore Business Machines Ltd. today announced a new version of the multimedia workstation powered by a 25MHz @ 68040 processor, making it the most expandable and powerful Amiga currently available. The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price is $6,895.00 including a monitor. Units should be available in mid September 1992 at Commodore authorized reseller locations.

The Amiga 3000T-040/200 features the processor with an integrated math co­ 0 processor and provides approximately 20 CISC MIPS and 3.5 DP Megaflops. The 68040 equipped A3000T features throughput that equals or surpasses other similarly equipped Motorola 68040 or ® 486-based machines. The unit includes AmigaDOS™ 2.0 and comes standard with a 200MB , a 3.5" floppy disk drive, 5MB of RAM (expandable to 18MB), and 32 bit bus architecture.

"The Amiga 3000T is ideal for the demanding needs of the professional multimedia developer involved in videographics, dynamic presentations, interactive training or point-of-sale kiosks," said Commodore Director of Marketing Tom Shepherd. "The great speed and expandability of the system, combined with the system's ability* to connect to a Novell® network and share information with MACs and PCs, make it the logical choice for use as a multimedia development workstation."

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Commodore International Limited, through its operating subsidiaries around the world, manufactures and markets personal computers to customers in the professional, government, education and consu~er market sectors. The company has four product lines: the Amiga multimedia computers, the MS-DOS PC compatibles, the C64 computers and the CDTV.

Commodore was established in 1958 in and now has worldwide revenues of over $1 billion with over 3000 employees in 43 countries. Commodore-owned manufacturing facilities are located in West Chester, U.S.A., Hong Kong, and West . The company is listed on the .

For more information on Commodore's products and corporate background, please contact Tom Shepherd, Commodore's Director of Marketing at (416) 499-4292.

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Commodore® is a registered trademark of Commodore Electrmics limited. Amiga®, AmigaDOS and Bridgcboard are trademarks of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. MS-DOS® is a trademark of Corporation. Motorola® is a trademark of Motorola Inc. ® is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Novell® is a trademark of Novell Inc. Intel® 486 is a trademark of Intel Corporation.

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