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Subject: Re: Wanted information on RadioShack Tabletop Chess Computers

Author: Alain Lyrette

Date: 05:21:45 01/31/02

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On January 30, 2002 at 15:56:08, walter irvin wrote:

>On January 30, 2002 at 14:05:54, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>
>>Back in the early eighties the first Models of dedicated RadioShack Computers
>>were sold They had numbers attached to them specifying the Elo level
>>The models were 1450 ,1650 ,1680,1750,1850,2050,2150,2200,2250XL and the latest
>>one that has come out in 1998 is called the RadioShack Master chess Computer.
>>Does any body know who the programmer of all these models is? Clock speed of
>>the Processors? Also does anybody Know Why RadioShack Stop the Elo Labeling
>>With the intoduction Of the RadioShack Master chess Computer in 1998?
>
>i have a radioshack 2250 and i dont know who programed it , but what i can tell
>you is i also owned the mach IV master 68020 20 mhz 512kb hash and a match was
>played between them at 3 min a move .they played 10 games with radio shack
>winning  7-3 .i then sold the mach IV .the 2250 only sees about 500 nps so the
>mhz cant be much , strong program i think .if it were run at 60,000 nps it would
>be as strong as some of the best software .
That's weird.i own both a radioshack 2250 and an old fidelity challenger "2100
designer" running on a 6502 at 6 mhz and they are about equal at 40/2



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