Amiga A500 Technical Specs

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Amiga A500 specs

  • Motorola MC68000
  • 7.16 MHz CPU
  • 512k Chip RAM or 1 megabyte Chip RAM on motherboard
  • Maximum 512k (A500) or 1 megabyte Chip RAM (A500+)
  • 512k Fast RAM in trapdoor expansion bus (optional)
  • Maximum 8 megabytes Fast RAM
  • 512k RAM (A500) or 1 megabyte RAM (A500+) on motherboard
  • 256k ROM or 512k ROM on motherboard
  • 3.5 drive bay 2.5 drive mountable
  • 3.5 880K internal floppy drive
  • Integrated keyboard
  • 2 button mouse
  • A1000 sidecar expansion bus
  • A500 trapdoor expansion bus
  • Compact case
  • External power supply port
  • External floppy drive port
  • RS-232 serial port
  • Centronics parallel port
  • 2 mouse/joystick ports
  • Monochrome composite video port
  • 15kHz colour RGB analogue video port
  • 2 stereo audio output ports