Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 04:07:06 11/20/00
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On November 20, 2000 at 03:19:03, Ed Schröder wrote: >Read again: H+G ALWAYS provided me with the BEST hardware possible >on a World Championship investing many german marks because I always >got the latest and fastest Bsteh machine. And believe me H+G had to >pay big money for that. they provided it for YOU but they had no interest that the schaetzle and bsteh-kit is amongst the top of the ssdf-list. this would damage the business they had with the high-end machines they wanted to sell. >So what? the classes should not get out of order. why did you leave H+G and came together with TASC running rebel on the ARM-chess-machines when you were that much satisfied with the H+G politics ? as far as i see the chessmachines were as fast as a 486-33 and the 30 Mhz as fast as the 486-50/66. >>cause the 1600,- DM or was it 1900,- don't remember anymore ?! >>have to be paid for the turbo-kit, and only 498,- for the MM4-machine. >>this way the big amount of money was transferred to another company >>than H+G. >No. no ? i don't think schaetzle and bsteh gave the 1600-1900 DM to H+G... >The market for the turbo-kit was just too small. thats true. it was the end of the heavy-money machines. pc's came... at those times you worked with TASC on chessmachine engines, the 286 PC's were on the market. a 286 with a nice chessmachine, even a 386 with it was quite a nice thing. and 486-DX machines were really expensive at those times. but a chessmachine was really nice. i remember at those times my friend and me had up to 10 machines running in our pc's... >Yes slander. >Thuringen is no CSS tournament it never was. right. but css is very engaged in publishing the stuff since junior and df participate. >Ed
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