Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 07:43:54 03/13/01
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On March 13, 2001 at 02:57:57, Ed Schröder wrote: >Correct! I somewhere have a picture of that. The machine was an APPLE 2E >running at 1 (!!) Mhz that was upgraded by a technician to 8-10 Mhz. This >was of course asking for trouble. My guess was that because of the 400-600 >visitors some extra heat was produced and that was just the limit for the >processor to handle. it was the accelerator card for apple 2 e from schaetzle and besteh !! but not in a dedicated chess computer but in the original version for apple. when i am right joerg mitsdoerfer was the guy with the knowledge who brought the know how to computerschach and spiele cause he was the guy in computerschach and spiele writing the apple articles (he had apple computers). >Those were the days that many people came over to watch this new phenomenon. >I remember 1981 the first ducth championship, 1500 vistors, television, all >major news papers reported. >Compare this with the world championship in London 2000. Just 3 (!!) visitors >who came a few days later and stayed for a few days. Their names: that is ICCA reason. they do not promote the event in a good way. they are not interested in visitors nor programmers. but in gettiong their flights paid :-)) >- Ossi Weiner >- Frederic Friedel >- Richard Lang > >Why oh why... > >Ed
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