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Re: Fred Fish's A1000 on eBay
« on: August 16, 2004, 06:56:20 PM »
I think it's real too.  This really begs the question of just how collectable "famous" person's Amiga systems really are.  I think that nobody questions that Jay Miner's Amiga has collectable value.  But after a handful of famous persons, you have to really give this some thought.

Anybody who knows me on amiga.org will know that I am really only interested in collecting Amiga (and no other aspect of Amiga), so I'm going to speak as a collector when I say that I don't see a great deal of value in these one-off systems.  

Like someone mentioned above, this Amiga might be worth something to me if it came with some of the first Fish disks, and perhaps a picture of FF next ot this Amiga in a magazine interview, and maybe some other related memerobillia and a signed COA all as a set.  

I said the same thing about Laxity's Amiga 500.  I've little reason to doubt it was legit, but to be worth somehting to me, it would have had to come with supporting letters, magazine clippings, photos, "best of show at the gathering" certificates, etc.  that showed even non-Amiga collectors why this computer has a historical significance.

Hopefuly, we'll see some Amigas computers like this come along.  As I've said, it would be cool to get Trip Hawkins' A1000, along with a signed COA and maybe framed copies of the EA launch titles.  Or .info magazine's Amiga 2000, with all the publishing software still installed, and saves of various articles still in mid-edit, etc...