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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