Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 10:57:19 04/17/98
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On April 17, 1998 at 13:49:16, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 17, 1998 at 08:22:48, Steven Schwartz wrote: > >>On April 17, 1998 at 01:34:13, Christophe Theron wrote: >>>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 > >It is strange, because I remember the unit seemed to be exactly the one >of the Sargon 2.5 or Morphy computer. > >Maybe I'm just mixing two old memories... >Christophe I think you might be. Applied Concepts (Texas) introduced the big beautiful, wooden Sargon 2.5 Auto Response Board (actually manufactured by A.V.E. Microsystems in California) around that time. It had no robotic arm but was autosensory. Then when Applied got out of the business, A.V.E. marketed it by themselves, and, finally, I convinced Fidelity to buy the boards and put the their latest Spracklen program inside. Now, THAT was a nice machine. The best looking board with the strongest program at the time. -Steve
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