Did anyone else see this auction??

[Markus_Bieler]

Good for it, because so old unused capacitors and chips might just blow themselves at the first sight of the first electron on power up.

Just start up and leave it running for only a couple of seconds (30-40) the first time. then switch off and wait some minutes (drink a coffee etc). Startz up again the old Computer let him running for 1-2 minutes and Switch off. Next satepp is a runningtime of 10-15 minutes, after it should go well running for longer peroids.

But to top the Topic:

How about his auction: :eek: CRAZY :eek:

I Need some dime, please donate

Markus

[Chips4U]

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

[Gazbonk]

Seems crazy the prices people pay on the auction sites, but whatever you are offered and get is the price that the buyer wants the item for.

Ive paid high prices for things (accelerators) because I wanted them and there were none available except on the auction site.

PS - Welcome to the forum & a nice story with Amiga history.

[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

[LoadWB]

Hi Guys

I was the seller of this auction
I have been paid in full for this so relisting won't happen

I stand corrected, then.  And honestly surprised.

[Chips4U]

My guess is that this will never be unboxed
Much like a 100 year old bottle of champagne, the glory in it is owning the only one, with the contents never being tasted. Being able to pull it from your wine cellar just to show and marvel at it

[arttu80]

Really awesome stuff! I salute those collectors who's willing to preserve some very important higlights in Amiga history and dish out that kind of money along the way. And yes, it WILL marvel people when they see unopened box of A1k in years to come!

[Xanxi]

My guess is that this will never be unboxed
Much like a 100 year old bottle of champagne, the glory in it is owning the only one, with the contents never being tasted. Being able to pull it from your wine cellar just to show and marvel at it

So, just like the Schrödinger's cat, it will be the Schrödinger's A1000.
Is there an A1000 inside the box or not? No one will ever know and the A1000 could be in different points of the space-time continuum at equal probabilities: that's quatum physics
At least, i take for sure that there was an A1000 inside the box just one second after the box was closed at the Commodore factory on 1985

[LoadWB]

So, just like the Schrödinger's cat, it will be the Schrödinger's A1000.
Is there an A1000 inside the box or not? No one will ever know and the A1000 could be in different points of the space-time continuum at equal probabilities: that's quatum physics
At least, i take for sure that there was an A1000 inside the box just one second after the box was closed at the Commodore factory on 1985

Yup.  There is and there isn't an A1000 in the box.  So long as the box never opens it is still in the Commodore factory, brand-spanking new and fresh off the assembly line.  Once the box is open, however, it will be yanked into the future, dry electrolytic capacitors and all.

This was Commodore's genius: Quantum Product Distribution.  The assembly lines are chugging away in the 80s and early 90s producing Amigas for us to open today and into the future.  Just like those CD-32s that "turned up" several years back.  This, IMHO, was Petro's big failure with his 1200 Magic Packs, that he had the 1200s delivered too soon from the 90s by opening the boxes to sign them.  If only he had been privy to Commodore's QPD system.

[r.cade]

Here is a good one!

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

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Here is a good one!

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

"in kindergarten in 1994" - kids these days! :p

[LoadWB]

Here is a good one!

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

Okay, now that is just obscene.  You know, I never realized how much the Commodore PCs looked like an Amiga running something like PC Task.  Maybe that's what they really are under the hood! :crazy:

[Darrin]

Here is a good one!

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

My first thoughts were:  "Oh, that's a nice A2000"

My second were:  "HOW MUCH???!!!"



At least I know where the A2000 case inspiration came from now.

[bbond007]

My first thoughts were:  "Oh, that's a nice A2000"

My second were:  "HOW MUCH???!!!"



At least I know where the A2000 case inspiration came from now.

are those really worth that much? I know someone who had one of those... its either sitting right where it was or has been sent to the scrap heap...

[bitman]

Makes me wonder how much a CBM Amiga 4000T would be worth?

Well a loose C65 can go for $20,000 so yes I think so.