Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 22:57:09 12/16/01
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On December 16, 2001 at 22:35:02, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 Just thought I'd ask....Does anyone here feel the old standalones will gather value in the future? From the earliest commercial versions to the last commercial versions, most in plastic, some in wood, which both Fidelity Electronics and Mephisto (Hegner& Glasser) put out between 1977 to 1988-89 for Fidelity and 1980 to 1993-94 for Mephisto? After 1988 Fidelity didn't sell any newer programme versions as the Mach IV was still just the Mach III but faster and I think for Mephisto 1993-94 there was no real progress if I'm not mistaken, no newer programmes, Seiteck notwithstanding. Also the oldest to the last of the strong dedicated units made by Novag? Well strong for their day;-) Terry
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