Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay

[Jope]

I reckon by the time Commodore was sending out dev units, they'd have some actual chips rather than breadboards. Breadboards are too flakey to ship out to developers.

I have to agree. Seems like a lot of guys are thrown on the wrong track by the old pictures where a very similar looking dev box and some of the lorraine wire wrap sandwiches were in a group portrait.

Whoever ends up buying this, please make sure to read out the ROMs and let them be free. :-D

[Jope]

I can verify this claim. Dale has the Lorraine prototype. This item on Ebay is not THE Lorraine prototype for sure, but seems genuine.

This is a pre-release developer box, a so called "black box" Amiga.. I hope that is clear by now.

What I'd like to know is, does this require a SAGE machine as a companion to be usable or will it boot up from an Amiga formatted disk.

The kickstart EPROMs look like quite an early revision, so they might contain only a bootstrap that can load stuff over the serial port.