Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:35:02 12/16/01
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On December 16, 2001 at 21:47:08, Robert C. Maddox wrote:
>It wasn't that many years ago that you could pay over $10,000 for a
>top-of-the-line Mephisto chess computer. (Or so I was told; I've never actually
>seen a five-figure chess machine.)
>
>Those bad boys were reputed to play about as well as an IM, I think.
>
>I wonder how much one of those puppies would sell for today -- a used one, that
>is. If you actually paid, say, $12,000 for a chess computer way back in the
>stone age, would you be willing to part with it for a couple hundred bucks? ;^)
I guess if I had one, I would not sell it. Certainly not for a couple hundred
bucks.
Christophe
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