Amiga development system (prototype?) on eBay

[bloodline]

For developer unit, the custom chip breadboards probably would have been housed in black metal cases that might have looked like some old broken "VCRs"

[som99]

Yepp it seems that the good parts is missing, I would never buy it at the state it is for that kind of money, since the  pictures are so low quality and the facts that he have had it for 8 years without trying to hook it up to a monitor to see if it works.

without better pictures on the chips etc and a test to hook it up to a monitor and a report/pic on what happens would make it more of a good buy, tho someone that for sure knows what is missing and/or have the missing part might buy it and if we are lucky we will see him/her who buys it posting here

[xeron]

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.

[xeron]

Well, I emailed Carl Sassenrath to see what he makes of it...

[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

[salax54]

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

And take some better pictures of it!
As i was saying somewhere else, this must be a "sibbling" of the Lorraine. But from the link i found http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/563890692JxMvHh It seems that a similar unit was attached to a Sage IV host system... Going through the pics is interesting in itself! Check the floppies if you browse through the whole album.

[xeron]

Yeah, I don't think its lorraine at all. The one in that photo set doesn't mention Commodore, and has a serial number ending in -002. It seems that between 002 and 115, commodore came along :-)

You can also see a prototype paula (portia) chip in the -002 model (Init OK, Disk Good?, Audio Good?), so there were definately custom chips before -115 came along.

[persia]

So what does the toilet paper roll signify???

[VingtTrois]

New pictures of this LORRAINE.



and



Others are coming as soon as possible.

[asymetrix]

in the top picture, the main chip with the yellow dot, below it can easily read Portia (upside down).

[ElPolloDiabl]

So what does the toilet paper roll signify???

Isn't tape up or tape down a term?

[xeron]

Well, its pretty clear to me that this is a genuine Amiga developer system, with custom chips (no breadboards).

It is *NOT* the Lorraine prototype at all. But still very cool.

[alexh]

We need information from the horses mouth.

[AmigaHeretic]

Looks like there's a bidder...

[Gulliver]

Dale Luck is the actual owner of the Lorraine prototype (he still has it). The one in ebay is an early developer kit.

[som99]

Dale Luck is the actual owner of the Lorraine prototype (he still has it). The one in ebay is an early developer kit.

Do you know if it's intact?