Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 10:37:32 10/21/01
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On October 21, 2001 at 03:28:58, allan johnson wrote: >On October 20, 2001 at 17:53:47, Steven Schwartz wrote: > >>On October 20, 2001 at 15:09:34, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On October 20, 2001 at 11:34:38, Steven Schwartz wrote: >>> >>>>On October 20, 2001 at 08:39:57, O. Veli wrote: >>>> >>>>>On October 19, 2001 at 10:46:34, Steven Schwartz wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Where did they get Star Sapphires? The chips to manufacture them >>>>>>will not be available till late December, and product won't be >>>>>>available until January? >>>>>>http://www.icdchess.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?page=8/80-N13.html&item=80-N13&cart_id=2600247.17861 >>>>> >>>>> Is there any concrete evidence for this? Star Sapphire was supposed to come ou >>>>>t in Summer 2000, then Christmas 2000, and now January 2001. Wasn't Novag >>>>>renamed as Perfect Technologies? I look forward to this product, but have no >>>>>hope of seeing it in my hands. >>>> >>>> >>>>The chips were supposed to be available in early November so that >>>>the product would be available for Christmas. However, we received >>>>word about a week ago that the chips were delayed until late Decmeber. >>>>So, January delivery looks good. However, we have learned from 23 years >>>>in this business that new product is delayed more than it is on time. >>>>We will know for certain that they are here when they get here. But >>>>right now January is as good a guess as any. >>>>Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games) >>> >>> >>> >>>I don't want to sound harsh, but in my opinion this product is dead before it is >>>born: you can just buy a PDA and download a good chess program for it and you >>>get a better combination than the Star Sapphire. >>> >>>Even if the unit is cheaper than a PDA of the same speed at this time, it's just >>>a matter of months before PDAs are cheaper and faster. And naturally they are >>>more flexible. >>> >>>If this product had been released when it was first announced, something like 2 >>>years ago, it would have been a winner. But 2002 is too late. I don't understand >>>why investors would put money in this anymore (unless they are blind). >>> >>>I must certainly be missing some piece of important information about the unit. >>>But what? >>> Christophe >> >> >>Having sold $10,000 and $6,000 and $2,000 and $1,000 chess computers >>in pretty high numbers in the past, I can never predict what our >>customers will and will not like. We have started taking pre-orders >>for the computer. I will let you know in a month or two just how >>successful or unsuccessful a venture it is going to be. >> >>I think the success of failure of the Star Sapphire and Star Diamond >>will be a pretty good predictor of whether the stand-alone high end chess >>computer market will ever attract a sizeable number of customers again. It >>should be interesting. >> >>Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games) > Steve: I have 3 stand alone chess computers the best being the Risc 1.How >much better will the Star Saphire be than the Risc1? >Al Al, I do not know what a Risc 1 is. There has never been a commercial machine in in the U.S. called by that name. There must be another name. Who made it? Steve (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games)
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