Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 14:44:57 06/16/00
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On June 13, 2000 at 12:39:16, Mike S. wrote:
>On June 12, 2000 at 16:38:21, Ian Osgood wrote:
>
>>(...)
>> [Correction: the Savant had a primitive LCD display which was not touch
>>sensitive. There was a joypad button to move a cursor instead.]
>
>Are you sure...? The NOVAG Savant, a table top chess computer of 1981 (no
>joypad), indeed had a touch sensitive LCD display. In 1982, the Savant II was
>released, together with the famous "Robot Adversary" version of it. Maybe you
>meant the Kasparov Chess Shadow, or the "Senator" (?).
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl
I'm sorry, I thought you were referring to a very old handheld model (1980's),
the first chess computer to have a "PDA" form factor. I forget the name and
manufacturer (any help here, Steve?)... I only remember the Chess Life ad; a
drawing of an executive in an airplane (and his pretty neighbor) looking down
with glee upon the gadget in his hand.
BTW, the Star Sapphire looks EXACTLY like a PalmIII, but with a thicker stylus,
no writing area, and no buttons except the power switch. The Niggemann site
(thanks O. Veli!) claims it will have a 1M ROM (program + 200K ply book) and
256K RAM (main memory + small hash table) and a clock speed of 16.58 MHz. The
display looks sharp (200x240 pixels, better than a Palm!) and can be backlit
("beleuchtetes")!
Ian
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