Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 20:46:40 07/31/05
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On July 31, 2005 at 07:12:43, Steve B wrote: >Sir Mark Rawlings as the first member to correctly give the Applied Concepts >Boris Diplomat released for sale in April 1979 >Kudos to Clive Munro for also getting the right answer > >officially called the BDI ,this was the worlds first truly portable chess >computer as it was both a hand held unit and worked on batteries > >while there is a fair amount of information available on the net regarding the >BDI ,i dont think there is any site which specifically mentions it as being >the very first portable(or at least i could find no such information) > > > there were several very good answers ,however the computers mentioned either >were released for sale after the BDI or if released earlier, did not run on >batteries and therefore are not true portables > >soon after the release of the BDI Applied Concepts released the BDII the only >difference being the color(Brown as opposed to Blue for the BD1).on the BD II >box the claim of worlds first battery operated portable is proudly displayed > >the program was written by the team of Slate and Atkins and contained a whopping >3K of ROM >somewhat unusual for a computer then and now, and perhaps even a bit ahead of >its time, there were no pre- set levels of play >rather the computer had a 100 hour timer and the user could program the computer >to calculate its move from instantaneous to up to 99Hours 99 Minutes and 99 >Seconds..(although this latter level seems a bit impractical considering the >batteries would probably die out well before) > > >The Worlds First Portable Chess Computer : >http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cpaa2@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=c0f3&.dnm=11d6.jpg&.src=ph > >Best Regards >Steve Just curious Steve, how close is the release date of the Tandy Chess Computer with the Boris Diplomat? It must have been very close? Terry
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