Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:04:10 04/19/98
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On April 18, 1998 at 18:50:55, Karsten Bauermeister wrote:
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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).
>>
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>>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
Yes it was really impressive. I was already completely fascinated by
chess computers, so you can imagine how I felt about this one!
Christophe
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