I have a new in box Commodore Amiga 1000 Prototype

[mknkt]

It means you still do not have a working A1000 computer and quit fussing with it before the little red light in front extinguishes forever.  :lol:

True, true thanks...

[mknkt]

Good Luck!

I'm just asking here - did it ever boot to a Kickstart Screen on a standard monitor or composite?  I'm not criticizing, I was just wondering.  :-)


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No, never got a kickstart screen, sorry

[mknkt]

Hey!..  dont sale it!. Better give to me like a Gift!..

I would but it's already up to $255 on ebay  :biglaugh:

[mknkt]

I took a close up picture of the only shipping label on the box.  I just realized it was shipped by Federal Express.  FedEx was Federal Express from 1973 til 2000.  I'm trying to figure out where this was shipped to or from... Any info on this older label would be great!:)

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[mknkt]

I have created an Online Picture Gallery with all the photos...  

http://mknkt.imgur.com/

[mknkt]

I'm looking at the pics (Thanks!!)

What's taped to the 68000 CPU?

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Some sort of jumper...:confused:

[mknkt]

The auction ends SOON... Don't miss out...:hammer:

[mknkt]

Haynie was gracious enough to shed some more light on this find:
 
"It looks fairly reasonable. It's clearly not the early prototypes...
the, based on the "Zorro" motherboard, were in black steel cases with
5.25" floppy and expansion "chimney", though the top of the board. This
was the state of the protoype shortly after Commodore bought Amiga.
 
The plastic here all looks correct, but it's clearly not the final
plastic -- it say "Commodore" not "Amiga", and there are no signatures
in the lid.
 
I'm not disturbed by the laser-printer label. I didn't see this sort
before, but assuming this is using early plastic and all, it was
probably a unit sent to developers. There's some date code, 6/28...
presumably, June 28, 1985, which would reinforce that idea. These would
have been fairly small in number, and yeah, for this kind of thing, we
often just printed up labels in the lab, or even hand-labelled them.
 
Chip-wise, it has the 6526, which was the predecessor of the 8520. The
8520 is basically a MOS HMOS-III version of the 6526, with a few tweaks
requested by the Amiga software team. You can see the 8362 Denise, 8364
Paula, and 8361 Agnus chips, all of which are the right vintage for a
pre-production Amiga... all with mid-early 1985 datecodes.
 
Curiously, it's a Hitachi 68000, but that's possible... Commodore went
shopping. We were paying $2.50 for a 68000 while Apple was paying over
$8.00 for the same chip."
 
"My guess, this is one of the units that went to developers. So,
basically a pre-production unit, not an engineering prototype. You can
see that kickstart is in ROM, two 8-bit EPROMs rather than the WCS board
used in A1000 production. That also makes some sense.. the WCS was a
late idea."
 
Hope this helps any potential bidders assess its true value.

Thank you very much for your post...

[mknkt]

SOLD:hammer:

[mknkt]

The auction ended at $1526... I got on a sight called Craigslist (a free want ads sight ) and went to the free section.  Someone had posted an ad that he had a lot of computer equipment for free, so I called and I was the first caller.  While my buddy and I were going through the equipment, I mentioned that my first pc was a commodore 64 and he said he had one new in the box.  I got it home and after a few days I opened up the box and saw that it wasn't a 64, so I started researching it and... "Now you know the rest of the story"  Thanks for everyone's support and hopefully the winner will give us some more in depth info on this development system...

[mknkt]

I can't believe how many views this thread has... WOW:eek: