Pittsburgh museum, university team up to discover unseen Andy Warhol computer images from 1985

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This undated photo provided by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., shows computer equipment that the museum says is Commodore Amiga computer equipment used by Andy Warhol in 1985-86. The museum says in a release that the artist had a contract with Commodore International to produce images on one of its Amiga home computers. The old images recently were extracted from disks by members of Pittsburgh\'s Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club in collaboration with museum staff. (AP Photo/The Andy Warhol Museum)

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Cybersleuths have unearthed images that Andy Warhol apparently made on a computer in 1985.

The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh says in a release that the artist had a contract with Commodore International to produce images on one of its Amiga home computers. The old images recently were extracted from disks by members of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club in collaboration with museum staff.

The museum says the images vary from doodles and camera shots of a desktop to versions of Warhol’s classic images of a banana, Marilyn Monroe and a Campbell’s soup can.

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