From Vultures to Vampires - volume one 1995-2004 by Pleasance David; Dickinson Trevor;

Author:Pleasance, David; Dickinson, Trevor;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Towering up EZ

Eyetech introduced two new A1200 Tower upgrade options in 1999. The first of these was the EZ-Tower Mk V, which retailed from £89.95, and included a 250-watt power supply, easy access removable side panels and a built-in faceplate. It offered seven external and two internal drive bays, and could house an A1200 with 68K or PPC accelerator and associated graphics cards, together with a full-size PC motherboard and PC cards.

The second, the EZ-Tower Z4, which retailed from £99.99, was supplied with a 230-watt power supply and built-in floppy disk faceplate. It could house an A1200 and an Apollo Z4 expansion busboard, both of which were available separately. The Apollo Z4, which retailed for £119.95, provided five Zorro II slots and two ultra-fast Zorro IV slots. It also included four clock ports and a pass-through connector for an A12000 68K or PPC accelerator, together with a video slot in-line with one of the high-speed Zorro IV slots.

Eyetech also offered a range of pre-configured A1200 EZ-PC Pro systems aimed at different user applications and budgets. The A1200 EZ-PC Tower-HSE (Home Studio Edition) retailed for £995.95 and included a TV tuner with cut-and-paste teletext facilities, a 24-bit frame grabber and video clip capture card. It also had a 30-bit colour scanner and a 56K modem bundled with unlimited internet access at local call rates.

The A1200 EZ-PC Tower-DVE (Digital Video Edition) was configured for home/semi-professional video production and retailed for £1,369.95. It was fitted with a hardware-based non-linear video editing suite and a built-in CD rewriter, and came with software for creating audio and video CDs.

At the top of the range was the A1200 EZ-PC Tower-XLS, which Eyetech marketed as the “ultimate creative multimedia expansion platform” for the A1200. It retailed for £1,999.95 and was equipped with non-linear video editing hardware and software, a DVD-ROM, a CD rewritable drive and an MPEG-2 decoder for DVD playback. Also included was a 15” colour monitor along with a 30-bit flatbed scanner and 56K data/fax/voice modem with voicemail and internet software.

For customers wishing to add a new A1200 to their EZ-PC tower order, Eyetech sold the A1200 EZ-PC Tower-3.1+ bundle, which retailed for £395.95 and included a brand new Kickstart 3.1 A1200 complete with Magic Pack bundle and Workbench software pre-installed on a 4.3GB hard drive. A 24x speed CD-ROM and EZCD Mk4 interface and pre-installed software was also included in the pack.

To complete its EZ-PC range, Eyetech also marketed the EZPC-SLE, an entry-level system that included a full EZ-PC Tower with a 100MHz-bus PC motherboard and 400MHz AMD CPU. The system was supplied with 32MB of RAM, an 8MB SVGA graphics card, a 16-bit sound card, a 32x speed CD-ROM and a 4.3GB hard drive. It came with many extras, including a TV/teletext tuner with 24-bit still and video capture and Amiga composite video input, a 56K V90 internal modem, and an Amiga PCMCIA ethernet card and adapters with Samba Amiga client/networking software. The package included several of Eyetech’s DIY tower upgrade components, such

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