Author: Johan de Koning
Date: 18:35:49 01/24/04
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On January 23, 2004 at 09:32:57, steven blincoe wrote: >HI Johan > >>You can safely assume TASC is dead > >the company might be dead and buried, but the demand for their dedicated chess >computers has reached an all time fevered pitch > >The R30 and R40 outfitted with either version(2.2 or 2.5)of your King program >,coupled with the SB20 or SB30 Smart Board, remain even today, the HIGHEST RATED > dedicated chess computer's ever released for sale >a remarkable achievment Thanks for the compliment, but the really remarkable thing is that after 1993 no company was stupid enough to try to launch a high-end dedicated unit. :-) >its too bad you did not want to be a "Museum" back then.. >:)) For those still reading: in a private e-mail I had to decline Steven's offer (money for R40) because I didn't have one. Nor any other product from those days for that matter. Simply because I did not want to play museum while still active. Stupid perhaps. But then again, if I would have been a collector, I would still not have sold my precious pieces. Catch 22. :-) ... Johan
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