Author: Karsten Bauermeister
Date: 15:50:55 04/18/98
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>You are right! This is the right model! > >The "Boris Handroid" had in fact the Sargon 2.5 program in it, I think, >or a modified version. It had the same style of play, and the same kind >of messages. > >The arm was not really an arm, but rather some kind of "portico" (I've >just find this word in my dictionnary, but I'm not sure it is the right >one), like the one you can find in harbours. The "hand" was hanging from >this portico, as I remember. > > > >I can swear that I played against what seems to be the Boris Handroid >computer in Beziers, France, in 1981, 1982 or 1983 (don't remember the >year precisely). > > > >Thanks for the data! > > > Christophe Hi Christophe, really interesting, that there was one Handroid for selling in a Store in France! Perhaps there more than five units built?! I would give my little finger for such a computer, of course! Karsten
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