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I believe one of the early Macs also had a similar feature on the inside.

Yes it was added on the very first Mac, and carried forward on newer compact Macs, losing signatures as the case design evolved https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

OK so the Amiga signatures were just a homage to an already established practice of doing this. Where there other machines of this era that had signatures too?

Well, there's one guy (Ron Nicholson, who later worked on the N64 chipset) whose signature appears in both machines. Perhaps he thought to apply Job's idea to the Amiga 1000.

As for other machines, I don't know of other signatures, but there are often Easter eggs. Commodore machines had funny stuff on their PCBs: codenames Rock Lobster, Junebug, plus the Fred/Wilma LEDs, etc. Lots of integrated circuits from several companies had artwork in unused areas of the silicon die.

Mouse/desktop GUI, 68K, 3.5" disk, open-and-closed $(company_name) modifier keys on either side of the keyboard, -- they were clearly going for the "we're just like Apple (but not)" design!

I can't see the similarity, the first Macs looked entirely different than the Amiga 1000 and almost everything on the hardware and software side was inferior to the Amiga.

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