Author: Steve B
Date: 05:00:17 01/25/05
a question was posted yesterday by Eric Galulla who is a top French collector of the old computers. he asked about an old PC chess playing program "Socrates" and several answers were posted .there seemed to be a bit of confusion,or lack of consistent information in the postings. it should be a cut and dry excercise to post basic information like this.. year of release programer manufacturer approximate cost this got me to thinking.. for the old computers.several sources exist that exactly chronicle the history of the market exact dates,manufacturer,elo,etc,etc are available a Dutch collector has also attempted a month by month history of every unit to hit the shelves although there is no one book or magazine that exists where all of the history can be easily culled, attempts were made at providing a detailed history if you ask about a certain unit or program you can find and receive exact unqualified information does anything like this exist for the PC chess hobby? lets for the moment forget the Mac or the early apple computers for example..can someone please post here the first 5 PC programs available to the public.. please give the name of the program,programer,date of release(year only ok) manufacturer and approximate cost to the public just looking up the first five PC chess programs that appear on the SSDF list will not provide an accurate history the SSDF did not test every possible dedicated unit and indeed many units do not appear on its lists i am sure this would be true for PC programs as well an uninformed observer looking only at the SSDF list today would not even know the Cmaster program exists(and is the best selling and most popular of all the progs) although PC programs are not my "cup of tea" i would find its history interesting Best Steve
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