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Early PIOS One Specification List

Soon after the PIOS One's announcement, PIOS provided a brief description of the system hardware.
Motherboard ATX sized motherboard
CPU board slot for a number of CPU's
CPU PPC603e 133MHz or 200MHz with 512k level 2 cache
Graphics Trio S3 PCI graphics card, 2MB VRAM 
Sound 16 bit MIDI ports
Internal sound input for CD and AUX
Memory 16MB of DIMM memory
Drives Seagate 2.1Gb E-IDE
8x IDE CD-ROM
HD floppy drive controller
SCSI-2 host adapter CPU board
Slots 5 PCI, 3 ISA
Ports 2 x RS232 high speed serial
2 x RS442 "geoport"
Bidirectional Parallel
PS/2 mouse
Apple desktop bus port (Maxxtrem)
PS/2 keyboard port
2 x gameport (for joysticks etc)
2x USB

TransAM-200

Several news articles indicated that PIOS would also release a 200MHz model. This would be shipped with:
CPU 603p 200 MHz
RAM 16 MB
Graphics PCI 2 Mb SVGA card
L2 Cache 512 KB
Drives EIDE Harddisk, 2.5 GB
12x ATAPI CD-ROM
HD floppy disk
Software pOS
BeOS
Linux
MetroWerks Codewarrior Lite for BeOS
An Office software package
Expected price £978

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