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Here is a little nice press release for you: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW AMIGA PORTABLE FROM NEWER TECHNOLOGY TO DEBUT AT THE WORLD OF COMMODORE SHOW IN TORONTO WICHITA, Kan. –11/13/91– Newer Technology announced the development of a new, true portable, Amiga computer. Based on the Motorola 68000 processor running at 7.16MHz, the Model 10 is 100% software compatible and available with the 1.3 or 2.0 Commodore ROMs. A monochrome LCD display is standard and a color LCD will be available soon. The model 10 will bi officiallay announced and on display at the next World of Commodore show in Toronto, Canada December 6-7-8 1991. A second 24MHz 68030 portable — the Model 30 — with an optional 68882 math co-processor, is currently under development but will not be officially announced until January 1992. The Model 30 Amiga portable is the ideal platform for the software developpers, graphics applications, video, animation, CD-TV, audio/MIDI users and AmigaVision users. The completely new design of Model 10 is compact: 2" tall, 11.7" wide and 8.3" deep when closed and weighs from three to six pounds depending upon configuration. It features 2MB of internal memory soldered onto the motherboard with expansion to up to 8MB total. An 86-pin expansion bus is available. One 3.5" 880K floppy drive is also standard. Battery power is completely dependent upon configuration and attached peripherals. Available peripherals from Newer Technology will include and external 40MB hard disk, and internal 20MB hard disk, RAM upgrades to 8MB, battery charger and a PC hardware upgrade. Projected peripherals include a CD-ROM drive, sound output interface, SCSI II Dart RAM drive, external tape drive and an external color display. Pricing and availability will be announced at the Toronto show. ———————————————————————— Isn't that nice!? Can't wait for it!! – via Whap!