Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World

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Amiga 4000T: The Best Amiga in the World Deep dive into Escom's Amiga 4000 Tower There had never been an Amiga better than Amiga 4000T. The T stands for tower, but this computer did not stand out in Amiga history due to its format factor, as Commodore had already been selling the tower version of A3000. Rather, it was the ultimate Amiga in what many call today the "classic" series, and nothing better — or anything else for that matter — has ever been produced in the classic Amiga line since this model was released. Let us take a deep dive into what one of the first reviewers in 1994, the year when it was released, called "the mother of all Amigas" and appreciate some of its unique features. If you prefer watching to reading, a very detailed video covering large parts of what has been covered in this article (plus more) can be found in the YouTube video below. VIDEO Legacy The computer was still designed by the original Commodore company, and prototypes were shown in 1993, but Commodore istelf managed to sell very few of them before they went banktrupt in May 1994. The company's assets were incorporated, under the new name Amiga Technologies, into a German home computer manufacturer Escom. That is also when Amiga computers changed their logos to this one: Figure 1. Amiga gets a new logo. Only a few, maybe a few dozen original Commodore-made 4000 towers exist, and hence have become rare collector items. Most of Amiga 4000Ts which we see today were made by Escom. While they are still relatively rare, based on interviews given by Petro Tyschtschenko, the head of Amiga Technologies, we can estimate that Escom sold between 5,000 and 20,0000 Amigas 4000T, with more likelihood that the actual number falls somewhere on the lower side of that range. We also know that even though the UK market was by far the most interesting one for the A1200 which Escom was also selling, the towers seemed to have been sold mostly in the US and German markets. The difficulty in estimating the ...