Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:36:25 12/07/97
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On December 07, 1997 at 18:57:25, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>>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 ?? Well, all you have told me confirm the idea of my wife that we are a bunch of madmen in the very fringe of absolute lunacy. Not that I would spend the rest of my life as you think Karsten could do, but I would expend my last 5 years on that... A pity I live in Chile, thousands miles from Germany, if not I will go to Karsten home to see that collection, if necesary with a Colt in my hands just in case he could say no. I would give a couple of fingers for a Morphy unit and a Savant unit. And there were so nice machines those days... Elite, Fidelity 9 and then super 9, etc... One of my favourites was Constellation 3,6, but I have it to a child in an attack of generosity or madness, I don't know, a boy that is now a promise of chilean chess. Pretty machine, well done, strong enough to be beaten with decency and even win to us if you was not alert. I suppose that yopu remember the very first machine, the day when you bought iit, the firt game you played. Mine was Fidelity 7, I was electrified, what a days were those... Now each week you get a new IM for just 100 to 150 bucks, as nothing. One day I will travel to Germany just to visit Karsten home or Karsten museum, I don't care. Tell him... Fernando
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