How rare is this?

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I have an A1010-style floppy drive that has a lovely, shiny Boing Ball logo instead of a checkmark.  It is serial number XN1108119.

I'm reading the Platform Studies book by Jimmy Maher, and he suggests the boingball logo was used on early pre-release hardware only, until Commodore changed to the checkmark logo.

How rare is my floppy drive?  Could it have been early pre-release hardware?  It still works!

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Pics??

I should have known someone would ask...

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It depends.

At one point the badges where given away for free when you bought something from an online store run by one of the original Amiga developers. He had a bunch saved from the early days when C= decided not to use them. Can't recall his name nor the shop (phone.net? Intangible Assets Manufacturing?). I got a few when I bought a copy of the Deathbed Vigil VHS. Probably around 2000.

So it might be that the drive had a regular badge which was then replaced when the owner received freebie badges.

In any case, the badges themselves are now fairly rare and "collectible".

Ah.  Dale Luck ran IAM which sold the Deathbed Vigil.  He definitely was there in the early days

Thanks for the info!