Editing Amiga 1000 (section)

== Design ==
The A1000 has a number of characteristics that distinguish it from later Amiga models: It is the only model to feature the short-lived Amiga check-mark logo on its case, the majority of the case is elevated slightly to give a storage area for the keyboard when not in use (a "keyboard garage"), and the inside of the case is engraved with the signatures of the Amiga designers (similar to the [[Macintosh 128K|Macintosh]]); including [[Jay Miner]] and the paw print of his dog Mitchy. The A1000's case was designed by [[Howard Stolz]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/ism101/Winter05/abstracts/week1.html | title=ISM 101 Seminar: 13 January 2005 | work=USCS Engineering | access-date=2009-03-14 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617144450/http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/ism101/Winter05/abstracts/week1.html | archive-date=June 17, 2010 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref>  As Senior Industrial Designer at Commodore, Stolz was the mechanical lead and primary interface with [[Sanyo]] in Japan, the contract manufacturer for the A1000 casing.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.linkedin.com/in/howardstolz | title=Howard Stolz profile | work=Howard Stolz LinkedIn profile | access-date=2009-06-28}}</ref>

The Amiga 1000 was manufactured in two variations:  One uses the [[NTSC]] television standard and the other uses the [[PAL]] television standard. The NTSC variant was the initial model manufactured and sold in [[North America]]. The later PAL model was manufactured in Germany and sold in countries using the PAL television standard. The first NTSC systems lack the [[Amiga Halfbrite mode|EHB video mode]] which is present in all later Amiga models.

Because [[AmigaOS]] was rather [[Software bug|buggy]] at the time of the A1000's release, the OS was not placed in ROM then. Instead, the A1000 includes a [[daughterboard]] with 256&nbsp;[[kilobyte|KB]] of RAM, dubbed the "writable control store" (WCS), into which the core of the operating system is loaded from floppy disk (this portion of the operating system is known as the "[[Kickstart (Amiga)|Kickstart]]"). The WCS is write-protected after loading, and system resets do not require a reload of the WCS. In Europe, the WCS was often referred to as WOM (Write Once Memory), a play on the more conventional term "ROM" ([[read-only memory]]).