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Subject: Re: Collector's Corner..A Question To Those Interested..

Author: Nick Wilson

Date: 01:08:38 07/02/05

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>
>i will start it off by saying i consider the Omikron Bogol the most perplexing
>computer ever released and quite frankly hard for me to  understand..
>this was a full, Tournament sized ,wooden ,auto sensory with the unbelievable
>mistake of having the white and black squares reversed(having a black square in
>the lower right hand corner)
>
>i still cant figure out how this can happen
>i mean producing a wooden full sized computer is no "fly by night" operation
>which takes 15 minutes
>
>it would take months and months to produce a full compliment of shippable
>computers,and in all that time,not one person,in the entire production,selling
>and marketing depts noticed this obvious gaff??
>
>i just cant figure it out
>
>Best
>Steve

Steve - was the Bogol actually released? I've read of a prototype being entered
into a early 1980's chess computer tournament but I hadn't realised it made it
into production. And I've never even seen a picture of one (apart from a very
grainy, poor b/w photocopy), or even heard of one for sale anywhere on the net
at any time.

If that prototype still exists and found its way onto ebay, I bet dedicated
chess computer price records would be broken...

Nick



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