Author: Steve B
Date: 16:54:24 12/20/05
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> >So Larry Kaufman and Ken Thompson and David Kittinger would often make use >of my machines for testing. Sometimes this would take the form of phone-calls >lasting hours and hours. Other times, it would involve outright selling the >machine, for example a special Novag to David, who of course was its programmer. its interesting to think of selling a chess computer to the programmer whose chess program was inside of it i would think they automatically got a free sample of each model that contained their program but i remember reading that the Spracklens who were interviewed many years after they gave up chess programming only had one chess computer in their possession a Prestige Challenger >But that's why these days are the best, with this forum of Steve's along >with the huge advances computer chess has made. It has almost become >normal to write a chess program. well i agree these days are the best..but not from pc chess standpoint as i am not interested in pc chess but from a collecting the old computers standpoint today..with Ebay one get have a fairly respectable collection of high-end chess computers in a very short period of time this was not possible even 5 years ago Steve
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