Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:41:57 05/29/02
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On May 29, 2002 at 23:32:36, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>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
256Kb of RAM? This must be a mistake. Wasn't it 256 bytes?
Mini neon? I guess we call it LED most of the times... :)
NiCad? Are you sure? At that time I'm not sure this technology was available for
a mass market product.
And finally Boris as far as I remember was not talking. But the Chess Challenger
voice was. But that was 2 years later and from a different company.
Christophe
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