Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:09:19 05/29/02
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On May 29, 2002 at 23:41:57, Christophe Theron wrote: >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? Is it possible to write a chess program with only 256 bytes of memory? I mean to a program that plays and not to a program that resigns in the first move out of book. Uri
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