Pre-Production Amiga 1000 System

[JimmySteel]

I worked with Commodore as a third-party software developer for the Commodore-64 and other systems. We recently discovered that we still have a complete pre-production Amiga 1000 system. It has a sticker (dot-matrix printing) on the bottom reading:

"PROPERTY OF COMMODORE
NOT FOR SALE
THIS DEVICE HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED BY
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION.
THIS DEVICE IS NOT AND MAY NOT BE
OFFERED FOR SALE OR LEASE OR SOLD OR
LEASED UNTIL THE APPROVAL OF THE
FCC HAS BEEN OBTAINED."

The serial number sticker shows number XM1000999 and the model number is 1000-X.

Any information about this seemingly rare (or at least scarce) system would be appreciated. It powers up normally, but we have not done much more with it so far. TIA.

James

[JimmySteel]

Our Amiga 1000 system is clearly not as early as the "black box" development system that you gave a link to. Ours seems to be very early series production, prior to FCC approval, and was used for actual software development. The black case unit looks more like a short-run proof-of-concept system than something most developers would have trusted to write code on for production. Photos of the "not for sale" and SN stickers from our system are attached.