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Don, Last Friday, I attended the AMIGA SHOPPER SHOW at Wembley Exhibition Hall in London, and the Amiga 600 and Amga600 HD were on display in the Commodore booth, and were also for sale at many of the booths. As best I can recall, the list price of the 600 was 399 pounds, but the machine was rather heavily discounted at the show. They were selling, too. I saw large numbers of people taking them home. The ones available at the show had either floppies only, or else had 20M hard disks. The technical spec sheet, which I did bring home, says the preocessor is the 8000/7.14Mhz, 1M of memory expandable to 2M with an optional A601 card, three co-processors (Graphics, Video, Sound and Port); one integral 3.5" floppy; AmigaDOS 2; ports for one PCMCIA-card slot, programmable parallel and serial ports, standard parallel/serial ports; two control ports for Mouse/Joystick, graphics tablet, or Ligthpen; stereo audio, RGB anagloue/TTL, color composite video, TV modulator. It has a 78 key keyboard, standard 1-button mouse, can have one external 3.5" floppy. It measures approximately 354mm x 244mm x 66mm, weighs approximately 2.35kh, has an external power source, and can be expanded with a stereo color monitor, external floppy, 20M IDE hard drive, and parallel printer. The computer is small and portable. The size is excellent for taking around, and having a hard disk installed makes it extremely handy for taking to meetings, travelling, etc. Since it has the internal TV modulator, it could be used with a TV in a motel, for instance, or with one of the tiny portable TV's. It weighs more than the notebook Toshiba that I took with me to England – but not a great deal more. I think we will have to wait and see what becomes available for that PCMCIA slot. There were rumors around the show of several interesting options for that. Incidentally, Mr. Dionne of CBM USA was there. I talked with him for a while at the show. He said there were going to be some interesting [ MORE ]