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Subject: On This Eve Of Frantic Bidding..Some Factoids On the Legendary Robot

Author: Steve B

Date: 16:20:23 05/17/05

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FIRST  chess playing Robot to be released for sale

ONLY Robot ever released to employ a Robotic Arm for piece movement

ONLY chess computer ever released to contain an "Emotions" feature

contains Dave Kittingers Famous MY CHESS program

HIGHEST price ever paid for a used chess computer on Ebay($4200)

no more then 2000 were made

very high defect rate with perhaps no more then 100 perfectly working in
existence today(my guess)

price when sold as new in 1982-$2000

it will not set the board up to play with the White pieces from the top
(the player will set the pieces up and then of course the Robot will play with
white from the top)

16 of the worlds greatest chess games(as of 1982) are built into the Robot for
your viewing and playback pleasure

including the young Bobby  Fischers  1956 "Game of the Century" vs  D Bryne


legend (and the manual) indicates that additional modules  were released to
offering more classic games but to date no collector has seen these modules
however an empty eprom slot was provided with easy access via an "Eprom Door"
for these mysterious Phantom modules(sorry for the pun)

shown here is the opened Eprom door  with the "mysterious" vacant Eprom slot
shown  circled in Orange:


http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=3353&.dnm=1998.jpg&.src=ph

to all those bidding..
have a peaceful nights sleep
Best
Steve



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