Author: Karsten Bauermeister
Date: 16:36:34 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 16:55:47, Charlie GOLD wrote: > > Par Excellence, 1986 has all the features of the Excellence(1985). It is an >upgrade plus full take back, 64 selectable openings to choose from. ROM: 32K, >RAM: 8K, MHz: 5 > Elite 2100, 1987/88 is the Par program with all the features of the Elite >AS: wood board and pieces, etc. plus twin display screens(the AS had one screen >display), and an easier evaluation score for the human to understand. > Mach IIC-LA, 1987 has all the features of the Par plus 33 levels, replay, >display screen, stronger program, but no selectable openings. ROM: 64K, RAM: >144K, MHz: 12, Book: 24K.It uses a 68000 processor and a 16 bit hash >table(first?). > Mach III Master, 1988 is a further improvement in the Mach series. It was >officially graded at 2265(USCF) and has all the features of the Mach IIC. ROM: >64K, RAM: 80K, MHz: 16. Hi Charlie, some minor corrections again: The first Elite Avantgarde in 1985 had the exhausting Mobile-program. Different to the later 2100. It was very fast in tactics for that time because of very deep searching chess sxtension and some other algos. It also had some different features, than the later Avantgarde 2100. At "2100" you could replay a game from the beginning. The mobile-program hadn't this function. There you could only take back all moves. In 1987 the Par Excellence became a successor - the Fidelity Excel. A terrible plastic-bomber with many bugs, but the first Fidelity-computer with the 16-Bit 68000 Motorola-processor. When you turned the board, the display didn't show moves correctly. This model was the first with hash tables, but only 1K! Data: 64 K ROM, 16 K RAM at 12 MHz. Book: 16K. Later there were a corrected program version. So all people were waiting for the Mach II. This model came with at least four different programs. A, B, C, C+. Perhaps the latest was also called "Los Angeles". Hash Tables increased to 128 K After this the first computer with singular extensions came out. It was the Mach III (16 Bit) and later the Mach IV (32 Bit). They lost the WM in Almeria, but were a commercial success. The program was significant stronger than the Mach II. Data: 64 K ROM, 80 K RAM. The Mach III also came with at least two different program-versions. Later we got the wonderful Mach III/IV-program in one of the most wonderful wodden housing as Elite Version 2-10. Last for the first and only time used 68040, build only 1o pieces and some "replicas" here in Germany and all over the world! yours Karsten
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