Yesterday, a buddy dropped off a bunch of Amiga goodies for me (thanks Darrin!) and in one of the boxes was a complete Amiga folder that is a Dealer's Kit. What's so cool about this package is how high quality the card stock paper is and the way they marketed the system to dealers. Fit and finish is top notch. I have never seen sales literature for the A1000 before, so imagine my excitement
Each individual sheet has Commodore's Corporate Mission Statement, Amiga Products Authorized Price Sheet shows the dealer cost and MSRP, Dealer Co-Op Plan, Dealer Support and 3rd Party Software Developers.
Single-sided horizontally laid out literature, printed on glossy, shows a pic of the hardware, large colored Amiga Checkmark and specs for the A1000 itself, 1080, A1050, 1010, 1020 and the 1680. Extremely well done.
In another find were several incredibly detailed schematics of the Amiga 1000's expansion port, specs of the case, shielding, etc. Since everything is so blown up and explained in clear detail, they're more like blueprints than electronic schematics. This package was put together for somebody that applied to be a developer for the machine and is complete with correspondence explaining that from Commodore.
Lastly, I found a different set of sales literature for the original Amiga rollout products. This time though, they're vertically laid out (as found on the more modern promo literature) and are double sided. Tons of info reveals more specs than we're used to seeing also, such as the frequency response of Paula, ohms output, etc.
Among all the goodies, the sales literature & Dealer cost sheet are the most exciting to me. Oh and there's a few super-early dot-matrix printed "mags" too (AmigaMail it's called) that talk about our beloved machine
As a huge A1000 fan, all of this stuff is very neat to have and adds value to my original Amiga collection. What I am wondering of course though, is if any of it might be "worth" more than simply the paper it's been printed on? lol How many complete and unused 'Dealer's Sales Kits' are there floating around?
I'm thinking all of this would look nicely displayed in acrylic sign holders, each respectively standing next to their boxed counterparts. Of course, I don't have the room to set aside an Amiga 1000 museum, but that's pretty much the sort of collection I've built up over the years. :lol:
