Amiga A3000UX i am working on

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The UX is really nothing special other than the logo on the front of the case,its identical to a regular 3000 in every way.

I beg to differ Most (if not all) of them were "Made in U.S.A.", which makes them special. The "regular" models, after the Amiga Unix product was discontinued with a vengeance, were manufactured elsewhere. I have two A3000 units in storage which were manufactured in Hongkong, for example.

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i guess i should of been more specific :biglaugh:, i meant hardware wise they are the same basic hardware- i.e motherboard revisions,roms ,030 etc.. i just looked on my regular 3000's and the UX's and mine are all made in the usa..

Yes, the A3000UX was a "custom bundle", not unlike the A500 game bundles sold in the UK at the time  The big difference not just being what was in the package (the A3070 tape drive and the A2065 Ethernet card, the three-button mouse, as well as the Amiga Unix installation disks, the tape and the manuals), but that the label on the case was different. I think the A3000UX also shipped with more memory by default than the regular configuration, because Amiga Unix needed it.

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Man.  Computers made in the U.S.A.  Reminds me of that thread when people were posting pictures of their A1200's, "Made in Scotland" stickers, and whatnot.  That's all something that'll never happen again.  

It could happen and it did: Apple manufactures the Mac Pro in the USA (likely using parts sourced from China), which is still viable given the price of the product and the small numbers in which it sells. It's no longer a viable business model for high volume sales, though. This ship sailed long ago...

This still worked in 1988-1990, before SMD was introduced. For example, when NeXT was still in business and making their own hardware, they had their own factory in California which manufactured NeXT Cubes and NeXTSTATIONS.

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I have to say though, 030/25 and fast on Unix doesn't seem to go hand in hand lol.

Considering the time and age, the MC68030 at 25 MHz was not quite so bad at running AT&T Unix System V release 4, compared to the workstations I used at university when I started on getting my computer science degree.

Back then we lucked out in that the computer science department had just retired one antique IBM System/360 and replaced it with a pool of shiny new Sun SPARCstation IPCs. These workstations were faster than the A3000UX, but not by a lot. If I remember correctly, a Sun SPARCstation IPC runs about as fast as an Amiga 3000 or 4000 with an A3640 CPU card (at 25 MHz; the Sun SPARCstation IPC CPU was clocked at 25 MHz, too).