Author: Thomas McBurney
Date: 08:39:12 10/20/03
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> >the Hanimex computachess and computachess ll were both early model portables and >of course played a weak game of chess >the top of the line Hanimex in the early 80's was the Hanimex CC1 >it had a very unusual peg sensory input system with long metal rods attached to >the base of the pieces which made contact with the computer to register the move >the program was the Fidelity cc1 with an expanded opening book.i should say with > AN opening book,because the Fidelity cc1 had no book >it couldnt even Castle.perhaps thats why i can win a game or two against it >:)) > Thanks for the info. Do you know what the differences are between the Hanimex Cumputachess and the Computachess II? I had a friend who had the Computachess, but I never got to see it work because it was broken. Did they use the same program or was the Computachess II model actually stronger? Here are more pics of my humble collection of 80's computer chess machines. They probably won't interest you because I think they were very common... http://www.zeta.org.au/~tommy/Tandy1650.jpg http://www.zeta.org.au/~tommy/Tandy1850.jpg http://www.zeta.org.au/~tommy/chessChampion2150L.jpg From my Intellivision Console. The chess cartrige was manufactured with an additional 2kb of ram and it was the only Mattel Electronics cartridge produced that had extra on Board RAM. The AI programming was done by a company called Teletape Inc. The chess cartridge also set the record for the longest development time for Mattel. http://www.zeta.org.au/~tommy/pics/intellivision_chess01.jpg http://www.zeta.org.au/~tommy/pics/intellivision_chess02.jpg
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