• Key Information: After 39 years, Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art was found and is for sale. In 1985, Commodore commissioned Warhol to demonstrate the Amiga 1000 computer. He created digital art images including a self-portrait and a portrait of Debbie Harry. Debbie Harry said she had a copy and another person, former Commodore engineer Jeff Bruette, came forward with a print and a signed floppy disk. Warhol's digital images were rudimentary by today's standards. His wife, a former art teacher, noticed his color choices. Warhol held the mouse differently in self-portraits, showing fear. He wasn't good at demonstrating the computer and struggled with flood fills during the live event. In 2014, images from Warhol's estate showed him experimenting with techniques. There was a lost opportunity for Commodore to further pursue the Andy Warhol connection.
• Main Views: From an art teacher's perspective, Warhol's color choices in the digital art were notable. A modern sales engineer pointed out Warhol's inconsistent results and the challenges of product demos. It was suggested that Commodore could have done a Shatner-like maneuver in print advertising.
• Details: The maximum resolution Warhol worked with was 640 by 400 pixels and he had 4,096 colors to choose from but could only use 32 at a time. He had a digital camera but it was limited. Bruette was more than a technician, teaching Warhol about computers and acting as the product manager. Commodore spliced in the rehearsal image in the video. Other Commodore engineers had stories about the flood fill function crashing the machine. In 2014, images from Warhol's estate showed him experimenting with copying and pasting. David Farquhar is a computer security professional who has written about retro computers since 1991 and blogs about it weekly.