Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 20:32:36 05/29/02
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Joshua, Boris,the talking chess computer originally came with its own NiCad battery pack (UPS) and operated also via a 120 volt wall transformer. It had a red mini neon display and a keypad for alphanumeric position entry. Boris came with a whopping 256 kilobytes of RAM and had an F-8 processor courtesy of Fairchild Electronics. You stored the plastic Staunton magnetic pieces in the walnut box that housed the electronics. I loved playing Boris when travelling in my Mustang convertible on the Baltimore-Washington Beltway back in the early 1980s. It was probably 700-800 ELO on a good day. I sold my Boris to a fellow from Georgia and he had it taken apart after two months. Maybe he thought there was a little man inside? Tio Timmy On May 29, 2002 at 19:16:40, Joshua Lee wrote: >I was hoping someone could tell me what they know about this old chess computer >and if they do have it how to get it to work? What kind of power it uses etc.
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