Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:55:40 09/11/05
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On September 11, 2005 at 16:12:15, Carey wrote: >I'm still working on trying to collect and archive old & classic chess programs. > I haven't given up. I haven't made much progress, but I haven't given up. > > >I'm still working on trying to track down some of the chess programers from >yesteryear. > >I have found a few, but most others I haven't found. > >Does anybody know where to contact these people? > > Dave Slate used to play on ICC a lot. He used the handle "rusty". You might check there. I haven't chatted with him in a year or so, but he was on ICC regularly. Ditto for Kittinger, who used to work on wchessX all the time on ICC... >Dennis Cooper & Ed Kozdrowicki (CoKo -- Program?) > >David Kittinger (MyChess -- Obtain source?) > >Dan or Kathe Spracklen (Sargon. -- Reposting permission for Sargon-1 >source.) > >Peter Frey, Larry Atkin (Chess 0.5 -- Reposting permission for article and >source.) > >David Slate & Larry Atkin (Chess 3.x & 4.x -- Obtain programs.) > >Ken Thompson (TinkerBelle, Belle diagrams etc.) Ken lives out in California. Retired from Bell Labs, now runs a flying school out there somewhere... > >David Slate (NuChess -- Obtain program.) See above... > >Mike Alexander, Fred Swartz, Jack O'Keefe, Mark Hersey (CHAOS -- Obtain >program) Fred was at the University of Michigan for years. NO idea if he is still there, have not had contact with him in 15 years probably... > >Albert Zorbrist & Fredrick Carlson (USC chess program -- Obtain program.) > >Alan Baisley (TECH-II -- Ask questions.) Jim Gilogly is around. I've had email from him in recent years although nothing in the last year... > >Richard Greenblatt (MacHack VI -- source) > > >If you know where any of these people are at, plese let me know or let them know >that to contact me. > >If you know others, then go ahead and remind me.... > >If you have or know of classic chess programs that you feel should be archived, >then let me know. There are lots of old programs and I certainly don't know all >of them. If it's from the 60's, then definetly! If it's from the 70's, then >probably. If it's from the 80's, then maybe. > >(And if it's from the 50's... you don't even need to ask!!! I'd definetly like >any of the chess or checkers programs from back then. But I doubt anything >still exists.) > > >I've been in contact with a few people, but there's some difficultly in getting >stuff off old tapes (pdp, dec, paper, etc.) > > >Several people have offered old commercial programs, from the late 70s or early >80s. Those are definetly appreciated. > >But I'm unsure of what to do with them... Copyright issues are still in effect >even for the antique Atari-2600 video chess cartridge, etc. So they can't >really legally be posted on the web some where. Even though there is no >commercial value anymore. > >I fully agree there are many commercial programs that should be saved and >archived. I'm just not yet sure how or where. I figure I should probably wait >until that's really a problem. (There are lots of chess programs for the 8 bit >micros, but I haven't taken the time yet to visit all the old micro sites and >try to track down and download all of them. If somebody wants to make a list or >something, go right ahead...) > > > >Same for classic articles, papers, thesis, etc. They should be archived as >well. Some can be posted. Other's can't... > >A lot of the classic papers, thesis's, etc. just aren't in electronic form at >all. And I don't have access to them. (Ahh, the joys of living in a small >rural town!)
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