Author: Steve B
Date: 04:46:51 07/02/05
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>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... hi Nick Yes to my knowledge it was..in fact i think there were two versions a Bogol 5.0 and 5.5..not sure of the differences between the two i cant say how many were actually sold though.. i imagine not many i know of a collector who owns one the Bogol is among that upper tier of rare computers that little was written about and little is known but they were released among this group would be the : Bogol CLJ Le Emperour TSB IV La Regence of course there are other computers equally as rare in terms of quantity but much is written about them ,such as: Tasc R40 Fidelity dual processors V5 and V8 Best Steve
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