THE Giant CeBit eiectronics show held in Hanover, Germany at the end of Màrch was the munch pad for Commodore's iatest Amiga, the A600. Baby AMIGA auwebeJ Basic details of the machine were exciusivay revealed in the January issue of Amigu Computing, when it was known as the A300. The A60Ô is simiiar to the A500P. it is housed in a smaiier case without the numeric keyboard and looks more like the C64 than any other Amiga. Enhancements include a bmit-in TV moduiator and the abiüty to use memory cards of between 512k and four megabytes capacity. Memory cards offer advantages over traditions! storage methods including speed and memory saving, and they are more secure against soft ware piracy. However, they cost much more than floppy disks. The new Amiga can be bought with or without an internal hard disk drive. Supplied with a hard drive, the machine is caiied the A600-HD. Storage capacity ranges from 20 to 120Mb and standard A600 models lohn Butters reports from Hanover can have drives fitted as extras. Using surface mount technology, the computer does not have the A500Ps side expansion port, and the trapdoor underneath has been made nonstandard. Owners wiii be unable to use many existing Amiga accessories.
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