Author: Mike S.
Date: 19:01:26 09/24/00
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I think, such a museum would be a quite expensive enterprise. You would have to find, and run with all it's expenses, a large room or hall somewhere (preferably in a major city), and you would need equipment like showcases, lightning etc. Furthermore, I think the owners of such old chess computers are already beginning to claim collector's values. Another idea, which probably wouldn't afford that much money, is to build a (more or less) complete documentation of these computers, with nice photos, box cover, etc., the detailed technical data, and who was the programmer. Especially the programmer's name was not mentioned in each case in the manuals. The optimum would be, if you can add one or two typical tournament time games to each model described. This would be a very valuable information collection I think, if published on the web. Some chess computer fans have already built similar sites for their own collections. You may happen to know Kurt Kispert's website: http://www.brettschachcomputer.de/ He has also links to other collectors. Regards, M.Scheidl Permanent Brain: http://members.surfeu.at/MScheidl
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