Dick Van Dyke sells his Amiga 4000T on ebay

[Oli_hd]

A little interesting thing has just come up on ebay.
Dick Van Dyke's A4000T
He will even autograph it if you want.
Cant say you see that on ebay very often.
Its currently $50 with a Xsurf, toaster/flyer and is powered by a 68040.

Just a little heads up, Im not the guy selling it. ;-)

[Krusher]

Not suitable for at work though, she's nekkid  :lol:

[countzero]

AAAARGH ...

[ZeBeeDee]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

All together now !!! :-D

[monami]

where's the rst of it? surely dick couldn't have misplaced it?

[ZeBeeDee]

Maybe Chitty Chitty Bang Bang needed a quick patch and the A4000 case was the only piece of metal to hand

[redrumloa]

Worth a bid, though I know I will get outbid.

[Retro_71]

Agreed.. Now i have to convince wife i need another Amiga  :-D

[A1260]

Q: Mr. Van Dyke can you talk about your interest in computer animation?

    Dick: It started out as a hobby about 15 years ago when Amiga first came out with a little machine that would actually do animation and I’ve been doing it ever since. Now I have a room full of equipment and I’m struggling to keep up with technology, but it’s an addiction. It is so much fun. I’ve gotten pretty good. I’ve been actually offered a job as an animator and I realize the minute there’s a deadline, the fun’s over. So I can play as long as I want to with it and I have some good stuff in there, but I’ve never sold any or even showed any of it.

www.moviesonline.ca

 :-)

[B00tDisk]

Sad.  So much for another "famous amiga user"...! :-(

[Caius]

eBay wrote:

He is also willing to autograph this machine, on request.

Vandalism!

[Nlandas]

Is this real and for-true? Wow, that's a pretty cool new piece of Amiga trivia. I'm really amazed that the side of the case is missing though.

-Nyle

[theformula]

[tokyoracer]

From www.moviesonline.ca ...

Q: Mr. Van Dyke can you talk about your interest in computer animation?

    Dick: It started out as a hobby about 15 years ago when Amiga first came out with a little machine that would actually do animation and I’ve been doing it ever since. Now I have a room full of equipment and I’m struggling to keep up with technology, but it’s an addiction. It is so much fun. I’ve gotten pretty good. I’ve been actually offered a job as an animator and I realize the minute there’s a deadline, the fun’s over. So I can play as long as I want to with it and I have some good stuff in there, but I’ve never sold any or even showed any of it.

Q: Would you sell it?

    Dick: Would I sell it? No, I wouldn’t. I don’t think I’d sell it. I’m not that good. You look at this movie and you have a long way to go.

[Ral-Clan]

Dick van Dyke was a huge proponent of the Amiga.  I read somewhere that he even created an effect in Lightwave of a motorcycle explosion for a TV show he was acting in (when the in house effects company couldn't do it due to budgetary contraints).

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2004/08/12/443.aspx