Dick Van Dyke sells his Amiga 4000T on ebay

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It is a bit confusing if it is running a 68040, or a 68060, as further down the description it states it has the 060.

If I had the money to spend on it, I would want to pick it up in person and have my picture taken with Dick and the A4000T and then get it autographed too.

I have known about his interest and use of Amigas for a long time, but this is interesting bit of Amiga history that is being auctioned off.

I loved watching the Dick Van Dyke show when I was a kid growing up and also his work in movies.  I would have loved to be in an Amiga/Video Toaster/Flyer user group perhaps 10 to 15 years ago and see Dick walk in to participate.  What a blast that would have been.

I was lucky enough to be part of a Riverside user group that had Jim Sachs show up as a guest and show some of his work as well as demonstrate a brand new Amiga paint program that was just beginning to be released, it was Brilliance and the famous box cover art of the Amiga Lagoon that Jim created was only partially finished at that time IIRC.  Ahh, the good old days!

Some lucky collector is going to get a great piece of Amiga history when they win that auction.

[amigadave]

All you conspiracy theorist are hilarious!

Ever think that Dick might just be getting a bit too old to enjoy using this Amiga anymore and as the eBay ad states, Dick just wants someone else to enjoy his Amiga as much as he has instead of it sitting unused in a closet, like so many other Amigas that others stop using.

As for the statement that it should be in a museum, :lol: maybe you think his telephone, or his toilet paper holder should be encased in glass too.  If he had created something fantastic with his Amiga, like the special effect for the movie "Titanic" and released it to the general public, then maybe I could see the justification of preserving it in a movie museum, but he didn't.

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If you feel compelled to continue this discussion about Macs, Linux distributions, etc., please have the decency to start a new thread and copy the parts you want from this thread.  Thanks

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For those who mistakenly think the auction ended with no bids for the $49.95, I don't know exactly what happened, but it is currently relisted and the bid amount is $425 with 4+ days to go.