Magazines Archives Amazing Computing ( EN ) Amazing Computing Vol 01 05 1986 Jun
The Amiga offers tremendous potential as yet untapped. MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, still in it's commercial infancy, is just beginning to take off in popularity. Yamaha has opened the floodgates to a new synthesis technology with FM sounds. Korg has blended sampled sounds and traditional analog technology into an affordable hybrid. Casio, Ensoniq and a host of others are bringing different approaches to the masses at unheard of prices. It goes on and on, and we are in the midst of it, or can be. All we have to do is open our eyes. And our ears. Nybbles, Rick Vol. 1 #5 June 1986 Page 14 AT COMDEX The Sidecar, closely mated to an Amiga, with an extra 3 1/2 disk drive on top. The Sidecar is about an inch taller than the Amiga system unit. Sidecar A First Look by John Foust The Sidecar is a hybrid machine that unites the Amiga and IBM PC computers. It provides complete IBM PC compatibility for the Amiga, wi1h a 5 1/4 disk drive, three PC-compatible card slots, 256K of onboard RAM, and a numeric coprocessor socket. The Sidecar stands an inch taller than the Amiga system unit. It mates directly to the side of the Amiga, to both the system bus and the joystick connectors. It is not a system bus passthrough, so it must be the last peripheral device connected to the Amiga bus connector.
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