Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 20:31:19 09/21/04
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I wonder how much you would pay for a protoype that was made here in Chile by some engineurs of the Math dep. of University of Chile, the biggest and more famous university here, lot, lot of years ago. It was kind of a hobby for them. If my memory serves me well, it was made using a Z-80, Zilog processor and a 2 or 4 Kb Ram memory unit. Do not remember the name they gave to it. They were excited, that I recall very well, by the idea to do something better than the fidelity 7. In those times I was studying maths there so I met them often. They did this one unit using that mentioned hardware and runned a program written by -by now dead- star programmer in that dept. It was good enough to defeat Fidelity, they told me, but I did not see the game or two they played. Apparently they overclocked the Zylog old thing in a very witty way. I am friend of one of the guys that took part in the endeavour, but I have never asked him about the unit. Probably is lying in the vault of one of the boys. Funny, I remembered this just now as reading your funny posts about Bogol. If that unit still exist could be considered the only chess machine ever made in a little country like mine in the end of the 70's. Probably was scrapped. My best Fernando
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