Please read an introduction to Amigas in the Amiga 1000 entry.

The Amiga 2000 is clearly the first mature Amiga computer. Commodore released numerous upgrade cards for this machine, including PC emulators, hard drive cards, and other I/O goodies. The "Zorro" slot was the secret to this new ability. Commodore also released variations on this model, including the 2000HD (2000 with hard drive card and hard drive), as well as the 2500 with a processor upgrade.

Statistics, features, and A2000/A2000HD resources:

CPU: Motorola 68000

• 7.14mhz

RAM: 1024 kilobytes

• Expandable to 9 megabytes

ROM: 256 kilobytes

Video: CSG "Daphne/Denise" chip

• Text: 60 X 32 and 80 X 32
• Hires: 320 X 200 through 640 X 512
• 4096 color palette

Sound: CSG "Portia/Paula" chip

• Four voice stereo Sound

Ports: CSG "Portia/Paula" chip

• 25 pin Centronics Parallel port
• 25 pin RS232 Serial port
• Stereo RF Sound plugs
• 9-pin Mouse/Joystick ports (X2)
• 25-pin Amiga Floppy port
• 23-pin Amiga Video port
• Composite RF Video port
• Internal Zorro and ISA slots

Keyboard: Full-sized 95 key QWERTY

• 18 key numeric keypad
• 4 direction cursor-pad

Extra hardware:

• Internal 880K 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
• "HD" model has an internal 200mb hard drive

Resources:

• Boot Issues

Personal Note: Another eBay find. I actually had notions of purchasing an Amiga 2000 as an upgrade to my 3000. I planned to put some sort of high-end GVP accellerator in it. That means I was very careful when choosing the machine to buy. Around the time I got the A2000, an awesome deal on an A4000 came up and I went ahead with the 4000 as my new main Amiga. The A2000HD was picked up for collectible reasons, though the Microtek Touchscreen system was a suprise bonus.

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