Author: James T. Walker
Date: 22:17:28 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 have a Fidelity Prestige which I had upgraded to the Mach IV. It cost about $1000 and I would NOT sell it for a couple of hundred. I also have a Mephisto Muchen which cost about the same with several modules to plug in and same story. They both still work like new. They are both nice sensory boards with magnets in the base of the chess pieces. They are a pleasure to play and still beat the pants off me. Both boards with pieces are worth a couple of hundred dollars even if the electronics went dead. Jim
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