Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:14:13 05/30/02
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On May 29, 2002 at 23:52:56, Don Prohaska 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?
>>
>>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
>
>Well, yes, it "talked" but you had to read. The talking spread along a small
>screen and read like a scrolling neon sign.
Yes I remember these funny comments.
Christophe
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