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How rare is this?
« on: July 02, 2015, 05:06:59 PM »
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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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2015, 05:16:25 PM »
Pics??
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2015, 05:20:15 PM »
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Pics??


I should have known someone would ask... :D
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2015, 06:00:28 PM »
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".
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2015, 06:06:44 PM »
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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!
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2015, 11:46:52 PM »
Looks like a stickem' job to me, as the others said.
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2015, 01:21:51 AM »
Stick 'em job or not, shame the case is soooooooo beat up!   :(  

You selling the drive or hanging on to it?
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2015, 03:21:14 AM »
Wow, so I could make anything rare?

« Last Edit: July 08, 2015, 09:51:01 AM by danbeaver »
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2015, 09:42:28 AM »
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Wow, so I could make anything rare?


No but you can take very blurry out of focus pictures apparently
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2015, 07:08:53 PM »
Between auctions on ebay and various forum posts over the years, it never ceases to astonish me how many Amiga owners own terrible cameras.  :angry:
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2015, 05:04:19 PM »
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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!


Not sure if there was any official information on the badging. Certainly worth doing some further research. Look after it.

Mine have the tick mark...

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/a_scuzz_nov26/a_scuzz_nov2005_142.jpg

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/a_scuzz_jun12/a_scuzz_jun12_79.jpg

I also incude a badge that definitely was later changed. This is the only one I know of that was a mistake.

http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/a_scuzz_mar14/a_scuzz_march26_02.jpg
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Re: How rare is this?
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2015, 09:56:21 AM »
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No but you can take very blurry out of focus pictures apparently

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