Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:07:32 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 02:09:19, Uri Blass wrote: >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 The program was in ROM not RAM. The RAM was an electronic "scratchpad" I believe. Jim
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