Author: Steve B
Date: 19:11:25 07/29/05
Portable chess computers have been around since the early days of dedicated chess computers While an exact definition is hard to come by, most collector's will agree that a portable is one that can be held in one hand and runs on batteries,although actually playing it will require two hands while many larger computers can run on batteries they really cannot comfortably be played without resting it on a desk or other flat surface Portable chess computer collecting is not for everyone indeed many collector's have no interest in this niche of the hobby while some will collect only the small marvels collecting portables has some obvious advantages over their bigger brothers namely,the cost which is much less and the space requirement for storage is also far less demanding indeed, one can acquire a fairly good collection of portables for the price of only one high end wooden computer some portables are quite strong and one does not have to necessarily sacrifice strength for size the Question.. please name the VERY FIRST PORTABLE chess computer to be released for sale the winner will be the FIRST member to correctly post the EXACT FULL NAME and the YEAR OF RELEASE i am asking for an exact name because many computers in the early days had similar names the winner will receive free of all cost(including shipping) the Excalibur Cutless itself a very nice portable ,with an information rich LCD display it will play at around 1600-1700 USCF and of course will run on batteries :) i will ship Worldwide it will come with the manual and full piece set in very good condition but NO BOX photo of the Cutless: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=/3353&.dnm=3601.jpg&.src=ph i have closed most of the other photo Albums so no one can take a peek to find the answer i will keep the question open until 12 PM Midnight (EST) Saturday July 30 2005 Good Luck Regards Steve
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