Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 15:57:25 12/07/97
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>>6 NPS is enought to kill you !!! :-) > > >Don't make me laugh...:-)) Both my Par Excellence and MMIV -Schroeder >vintage, don't forget- will cut into pieces anything you face to them, I >can bet. I would not be so sure. I remember when Karsten Bauermeister once came into my home for a match: his Fidelity (whatever version this was) against my Mephisto III. When I remember it right, he was smashed away and never ever asked for a revenge !! Haha !! Don't forget that I have tuned it from 12 Mhz to 24 Mhz !! Also I have a switch in the machine and can instantly switch from Mephisto III S into Roma16-Bit (but also 24 instead 12 Mhz) ! I have done this by exchanging the 4 x 16 Kbytes Eproms with 4 x 32 KByte Eproms and a small cable changing the contact of the pins depending of the switch !! Later Fidelity copied my idea with this Fidelity/Mephisto-switch machine, I have forgotten the name ! BUT MY MACHINE WAS TUNED with a 2 times higher Mhz ! So even than my machine was faster ! > As a curiosity: do you know what a heck is doing now Dan >Spracklen, father of PE and all challenger line, since Champion? Well, I >know: he is out of chess business and works as programmer in Sierra for >non-chessic proyects. I have tried a couple of time to contact him for >doing an interview for CCR, where I write, butt nothing happens. Whatever they do, I think this forum wishes them the best for their lifes. We still have much joy with our Fidelity machines, and I will never sell my fidelity avantgarde ! > A pity: >I love a lot Spracklen programs as much you love Colossus. And yersd, I >have also Colossus X and I had colossus IV for Atari. Pretty program. Right. >Martin Bryant, the programer, now engaged with checkers, was interviewed >by me in Computer Chess Reports, where he tells very nice stories, if >you are interested, let me know... >Fernando Of course I have read your original article in CCR !!! You are famous and well-known. I have told/translated my friends the article over telephone ! We had great pleasure ! Good stuff ! :-) I can confirm that Karsten has indeed one of the best and biggest collection of dedicated chess computers. There are hunters and collectors. Karsten seems to be a collector. I prefer to watch them fighting. Maybe I am a voyeur ? But - back to the topic. I get tears into my eyes when Karsten tells me about WHICH machines he has. I would maybe give up my whole life and would spend my days and nights to let them fight endless games against each other. I would spent my whole life-time with these 100's of dedicated machines. Maybe Karsten should open a computer-chess-museum in Muenster. I would appreciate the ICCA should help him to build a big and nice museum, full of stories and machines and stuff. And Karsten would be the boss of this museeum. And his only job would be to walk arround and tell stories about the machines. Why not ??
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