Author: Karsten Bauermeister
Date: 17:11:45 04/16/98
Hi to all. Really nice to hear, that there are some people, who are in the time of 300 MHz-PCs still interested in old chess computers. I am proud owner of more than 200 chess computers, about 140 old ones from the first ones to them of 1984. Most of them I bought in last six years second hand. Some of them were damaged, but most were ok when buying. I know storys of 80 percent out of order units, when getting them new (Chess Machine, some Fidelity models) and of really crazy collectors (like me too!?) and customers. People, who gave there last money for the computer, which is newest, oldest or rarest one. I am happy, that there are stil people, who have problems in playing with there lovely "toys" and that there are storys, which must be public. A special thanks to Fernando, who presents the story of "Organizing the first chess computer tournament". In Germany there was one very similar to that. A architect from Hamburg was the first one in Germany, who let play three computers against each other: Boris, Chess Challenger 3 or 10 and Compuchess. He wrote an article in the German Chess Magazin ROCHADE EUROPA in 1978. Later he began to collect chess computers and opened a privat chess computer museum in Hamburg. Perhaps that is something, I will do in the future, too! -) I would be very interested in knowing, if there is any website to the theme "old chess computers". There was a try some years before of some German guy, I don't know (!), but it wasn't proceded ... Karsten
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