Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 05:12:54 11/20/00
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On November 20, 2000 at 07:07:06, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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 ? H+G was a fine company. I went to Tasc with the RISC program because H+G did not want to invest in new hardware. And as the market for high-end expensive dedicated chess computers was on its way back they were right and simply bought the hardware and software one year later from Tasc. >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. Come on Thorsten, you don't can expect from me to defend CSS, now do you....? :-) Ed
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