Author: J. C. Boco
Date: 17:48:58 04/26/03
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On April 26, 2003 at 16:58:29, steven blincoe wrote: >Hi Bryan > no i dont have a web page dedicated to my collection,but your right..i am a >collector >in today's day of 4000 Gigabyte hard drives and 3000 MHz. screaming clock speeds >and Fritz 8.. oops sorry.. 5 minutes have gone by since i started writing >this..Fritz 9..its a pleasure to sit down and play on a nice wooden board,with >nice pieces and not have a PC screen blinkng in front of me,with no keyboard and >a mouse and driver conflicts etc.etc > >give me a nice Fidelity Septennial over the fastest pc and the latest version of >Shredder any day! > >Regards >Steve Let me second that, and even third that. I think playing dedicated units is much more fun that playing against an easy level on the computer. Just turn the thing on and off you go. I have a Radio Shack 2150L, and it gives me a good game at level 6. Over 20 years ago I had another radio shack model called Chess Champion. The picture on the box shows a white pawn along white's first rank! A barbarian is at the gate, however. I have a simple Palm with ChessTiger. For blitz games this is absolutely the best, but I don't play it for slower games. But I'm thinking of retiring my Radio Shack 2150L because it takes too long for it to think, and am looking for another dedicated unit. Now here's the problem, and hence the barbarian that is a non-dedicated unit is rearing it's ugly head. There is really no good dedicated unit to upgrade to. Except for that TASC wooden board (if you can even get those anymore), the best option for a dedicated unit is the Star Sapphire or the Star Diamond. And of course they aren't around yet. They have been expected for over 2 years now, and I think it's anyone's guess whether they ever will arrive. But let's pretend that these computers come forth. The Star Sapphire runs, does it not, at 16MHz? The Diamond at 20MHz? I would think my Palm m105 which I got for $75 would be thier equal. Especially so with the later Palms. And later Palms would cost about the same as the Star Sapphire. I'm afraid there is no dedicated computer to upgrade to anymore, even if the latest in vaporware comes to fruition. While I love my Palm and ChessTiger, there is just something about a purely dedicated unit that "does it" for me. Blah blah blah, I'm just venting/talking. Throwing thoughts out there, that sort of thing.
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