Author: Les Fernandez
Date: 23:33:22 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 13:19:02, Christophe Theron wrote: >On May 30, 2002 at 00:24:55, Les Fernandez 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. >> >>I still have mine but gave it to my sister who still has it. Do you remember >>the display? All chess pieces were made with straight lines and it had a mode >>that allowed you to watch all the permutations going on a particular rank? The >>infamous cigar box I use to call it.<s> >> >>Les > > >Yes I remember very well. The same program has been released one year after in a >plastic unit called the "Boris Diplomat". I almost bought one, but it was too >expensive for me at the time. Hi Chris, Talk about expensive do you remember "Prestige" ? Came with a beautiful hand crafted oak board and they only made a 1000 of them and each had their own serial number?? Well guess what the price tag on that was?? $1100.00 :( Les > >So I decided to save the money to buy a TRS-80 instead. > > > > Christophe
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