Author: Steve B
Date: 09:28:03 09/12/04
Another nuance of collecting is the ability to distinguish between computers and modules that were heavily advertised in advance of actually being released but never made it to market. an unsuspecting collector, in reading over all of the vast literature on the hobby would set about trying to collect items that in fact never saw the light of day.. Perhaps the most notorious of them all was the Applied Concepts Boris Handroid this Robotic Arm computer was heavily advertised in several leading chess magazines of the day at a listed price of about $1500.photo's and all the company went out of business well before the company even had a fully working prototype today, only two known working prototypes are known to exist,with the owner of only one making himself publicly known. other famous examples would be: Laser Chess-by the same company as the Handroid(but they changed their name to Destiny,in what certainly was an ill-fated omen :)) ) this was to be the worlds first "touch screen LCD pieces portable Fidelity Master 2400-complete with model number and photo's this baby was to have a Risc Processor running at 12Mhz.-never released. even auxiliary items such as opening book cartridges were not immune to this fate Fidelity advertised several modules for their top of the line wooden computers which were never released complete with model numbers: module TCE-theoretical chess endings module RPE-rook and pawn endings module BLZ-specializing in Blitz chess to name a few.. Best Steve
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