Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 05:22:48 04/17/98
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On April 17, 1998 at 01:34:13, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 16, 1998 at 22:10:26, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>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 > >Maximum respect to both of you. > >I was a kid when the first chess computers appeared. I could only stare >at them in the stores, but never had the money to buy one myself (at >this time). > >I remember playing once in a store against a Scisys model which had a >mechanical arm. It was maybe christmas 1981 or 1982? It moved the pieces >itself! The program was Sargon 2.5 I think. People from the store had to >throw me out every evening! If it had a robotic arm, it was the Robot Adversary by Novag, programmed by Dave Kittinger. -Steve >I don't understand why I'm so in love with those old computers. There >was something magical about them. I should talk about this with a >psychanalyst... :) > > > Christophe
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