Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 19:10:26 04/16/98
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On April 16, 1998 at 20:11:45, Karsten Bauermeister wrote: >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 ... But Karsten, for Heaven sake, what are you waiting for? You are the man to organize such site. I know you have the largest collection in Germany.I have -I guess- the largest in Chile. Sure there are people elsewhere with more machine san histories to tell. Fernando >Karsten
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