Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 11:46:07 03/13/01
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On March 13, 2001 at 10:43:54, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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 :-)) I think it is more a general tendency. I heard bad stories about the number of visitors of the last Paderborn tournament too. I guess that these days people look at web-sites. Ed >>- Ossi Weiner >>- Frederic Friedel >>- Richard Lang >> >>Why oh why... >> >>Ed
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