Amiga Manufacturing Locations

[dandelion]

Hi all..

I know that Amiga development went on at the West Chester site in the US, and that's where Dave Haynie was employed. I've seen DBV and know they were manufactured there as well. My question is, what other development and manufacturing locations were there?

I believe there was a German manufacturing site, did any development go on there as well as simply building Miggys? Also, my first 1200 was built in the Philipines - were all 1200s and 600s built there?

Finally, is there a particularly desirable site to own an Amiga from? I.e. rarity, build quality etc.

Just interested!

[Tahoe]

Some machines were also assembled in Braunschweig Germany, that's where my A2000 (rev 6.2) came from. I also believe C= had a production plant in Scotland, not sure though...

[Oli_hd]

Hi,

Finally, is there a particularly desirable site to own an Amiga from? I.e. rarity, build quality etc.

The original German A2K's were very different from later US made ones, its got only the first part of the video slot, a 512Kb Angus and is multilayer (where as the later US design was double sided only) so thats probably rare.
Ive got one... cant upgrade the OS past 2 because of no chip ram even though I have a 2632 memory card in it

[JaXanim]

Commodore's factory in Scotland closed down in 1994. More snippets can be found HERE.

JaX

[dandelion]

Ah! Now THAT'S interesting. As someone hailing from the UK I wouldn't mind a British built machine Quickly looking at the linked website it seems that it was operational until 1994. Does anyone know exactly what machines it produced? Also, does anyone know where abouts in Scotland it was located? Could take a few piccies for the archives!
(which reminds me, I should get down to the C= UK offices in maidenhead, if the building's still there).

[dandelion]

Further interest in the Scottish machines...does anyone own one and what identifiers are printed on the underside? Any nice "Made In the UK" or "Made in Scotland" badges?

[Skyrunner]

My A1200 is from the Scottish plant. It says Made in UK or Manufactured in the UK... but it's definitely UK. Oh the keyboard layout was German.

I also think that the machines made in Braunschweig had "Werk Braunschweig" written on their boxes. I don't think that machines from other plants had something similar on their boxes.

My 1987 A500 v.1.2 has "Made in W. Germany" written on it, but there's no "braunschweig" note on the box. Perhaps this note was on later machines.

Some or all A1000s were made in Japan.

[Gavilan]

Half of my A500´s were built in Philipines

Im not 100% sure about this, but i think in Brazil there was also a plant (or they just assemble the imported parts? Please some brazilians confirm this!)

My A1000 is made in Japan
My A1200 is from Philipines as well

OTHH, maybe some of you know, (and some not), but Argentina was the actually the only country who managed to get a licence from Commodore to built their own Commodore (not Amiga, but Commodore 64, 64c & 128). They wer branded Drean Commodore (Drean still exists today, one of the largest home appliances comapny here). The machines were, basically, refurbished/second hand motherboards imported from USA, and thanks to a special promotion plan, they didnt pay any taxes, and were built and assembled here (of course, they changed NTSC to PAL to adapt them to our TV system)

But thats another story...

Now, im not sure...but i think some of my Amigas is from Malaysia...could this be possible??

I will check when i get home

Cheers

Sebastian

[x56h34]

I've got a Scottish built A1200 system. The original box has a print on it that says something like "assembled or made in Scotland", however the unit itself looks like a typical UK A1200.

[Matt_H]

My Escom 4000T says "Made in USA". Don't know if that means assembled or fully fabricated. Could be a QuikPak model.

[Amigaz]

This duscussion must be very tempting for Doomy to join  :lol:

[amigakit]

Most of the A1200s that are here were made in France.

[steve30]

The A1200 that I just bought was made in the Philippines.

My A500+ that I got second hand back in 1997 was made in Chine, and the A500+ that I bought last year was made in Hong Kong, obviously before Hong Kong and china became one place. So my first A500+ could have either been made in a different place to the second one, or was made after the sedond one.

[JaXanim]

Commodore had a factory in Eaglescliffe, Teeside, England turning out 4 million calculators a year in 1974 (New Scientist Feb. 1974). Don't think any Amigas were made there, but it's not far from Scotland.

JaX

[dandelion]

This just gets more and more fascinating! I live about 10 miles from Eaglescliffe (pronounced Eggles-cliff) in County Durham. If I can track down the address i'll see if I can find it one weekend and post some piccies.