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Scala: Scala Infochannel Player
This unit was built by Scala themselves and was designed to be a Scala Infochannel Player. Scala info channel is a multimedia point of information broadcasting suite. It consists of an A1200 motherboard in a tower with a Micronik Zorro busboard, 030 accelerator, 4MB of Fast RAM and a 512MB Hard Disk
Becky Rose:
The
machine was developed after C= where certainly doomed to bankruptcy, we
had advanced warning and purchased all the remaining stock of Amiga
4000's but we did not have enough machinery to keep the company afloat
whilst we developed the PC version of our software. During a meeting
with management whilst discussing the fate of the company and what we
where going to do I posed the ideal that we could build everything bar
the motherboard from 3rd party peripherals and hack it into a case, and
we should investigate whether we could get any motherboards from C=.
We
managed to purchase 1000 Amiga 4000 motherboards from unassembled and
spare parts stock from C= which where distributed across the various
Scala offices around the world and sold as "Scala Workstations". The
first batches in the UK where built into PC cases and their back plate
holes where covered with a plate that we had made at a local
engineering firm, these didnt fit and so I spent many hours filing down
the plates to fit the cases.
Our stock in the UK ran dry pretty
quickly so we looked at repeating the process with the A1200, by then
the 3rd party market had cottoned on to the idea of recasing Amigas as
tower units and we used an off the shelf solution from Ramiga, I worked
on the first 2x A1200 machines that we used but the case design had an
earthing problem. I left the firm at this time, but gather the problems
where resolved in the next batch from Ramiga.
The specification
on all units was proprietry as they where specced to customer needs
with the first 1000 units being based on A4000 motherboards, in all the
A4000 based machines the processors where above C= speccification
because we used 3rd party expansions to fit them out, in some cases
060's. All later units where based on the A1200 motherboard.
The
machines where used for multi-media presentation and point of sale, and
where sold with Scala Infochannel software or in some cases Scala MM
software.
Contributions to this page by:
P de Vries, Becky Rose
Letzte Änderung des Artikels: 2009-01-24 19:09
Revision: 1.0
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