Did anyone else see this auction??

[Vlabguy1]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/310640574635?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649


Um WOW... that's all I have to say.

Rich

[Vlabguy1]

I suspect the final price was a troll.  Is any collector REALLY going to pay almost 10-large for an Amiga 1000, irrespective of its condition?

Could very well be..but it takes a few to tango... I was thinking that the high bidder must
realize the importance the Amiga played in the evolution of modern computing... I mean
Andy Warhol used it.  I know I kind of make fun but I think it is pretty darn cool.  Maybe not 9k worth of cool, but still.

Rich

[Vlabguy1]

Hi Guys

I was the seller of this auction
I have been paid in full for this so relisting won't happen
This is probably the last unopened A 1000 in existence
The buyer is the CEO of a public company that u have heard of and used
My guess is he is European and he probably cut his teeth on this learning
Programming 25 yrs ago and he is indebted forever to this machine
It will probably take a place of honor in his boardroom or office

t one time, I was the largest dealer of Motorola processors in the world, outside of Motorola. Jay Miner was a friend of mine I saw several times at Amiga World, World if Commodore, and Amiga Welt

Phase 5, Gvp Mtec Apollo Elbox, Dkb, Spirit,Csa Roessmuller and Draco all had my chips in them I am still friends with most of the principles and engineers in these companies. Mtec inscribed my name in the traces of their 030 board


I've been around for a while And deeply miss the the friends and customers I have made in the Amiga community.

I started buying c64 returns from home shopping club. Commodore had a speed bump at the end if there driveway and the socketed chips would crawl up in their sockets and just need reseating   In those days you could make $400 repairing an SX64 this way   Those were glory days and I really miss them

My first chips I sold were 68020 chips for a freeware file of the Lucas board designed by Oliver Harms in Germany. This was the 1st Amiga hack.it was like magic that you could go from 16 bit to 32 but and up the clock speed by double . The euro community was a Hotbed of Amiga activity. So many borders and languages but the point and click GUi transcended these barriers
Your only other option was a $3000 Mac (which wasn't NTSC or pal compatible, u could use your tv for a monitor ) or a command line solution like IBM
Because the Amiga was NTSC the it found embravment by the broadcast community

Btw , I was surprised what the computer brought but in retrospect, it shouldn't be
This item deserves to be in a museum. Thousands of today's brightest programmers, engineers and broadcast pros got their start with this NTSC compatible computer with color graphics and multiple voices. No IBM came close

Congrats on the sale.  Good thing the A1000 didn't have a battery onboard ;-).. I wonder if there will be an "unboxing video" posted ..

Rich

[Vlabguy1]

Here is a good one!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/vintage-commodore-PC-10-1987-/251255916533

Ok..that auction is worth tracking..lol..

Rich