Hi Guys!
I wanted to share something that has come into my possession recently: one of only half a dozen known Amiga Development Systems. According to one NEW piece of information I just received moments ago, mine is called "ZORRO" (where the very early versions were called Velvet) and this is where the Zorro name comes from.
This machine was created before a single Amiga was ever sold in the U.S. in either 1984 or early 1985. It was sent to Hewlett Packard in the hopes they would support the future platform by creating software and tools. They decided not to invest, and a gentleman purchased it from HP in the spring of 1985. We was quite likely the only non-Commodore employee to ever own an Amiga at that time.
In any case, I created a 17-minute video about the machine and the obvious differences between it and the earliest Amigas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfUVgHsPoNUI also wrote a longer explanation of the machine and posted it here with several more photos:
https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1031The key differences (in my mind) are:
- The logo is not an Amiga/Checkmark logo. It is an embossed Commodore logo instead.
- The keyboard doesn't have the Amiga red "A" keys - it has Chicken Lips
- There are no signatures under the top shell.
- It has really early custom chips: Portia (instead of Paula) and Daphne (instead of Denise) as well as a very early Agnus.
