Author: Mark Rawlings
Date: 08:07:20 04/17/99
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As one who has never thrown away any computer chess information since the late 70's, I have an old ICD ad that lists a chess printer for the Voice Sensory Challenger, Champion Chess Challenger, Elite, and Prestige. It doesnt have a model umber, but the ICD proce was $175. (This was during the time the Prestige was selling for $999.95.) I also have an old brochure from Fidelity that has a picture of the printer for the Voice Sensory and Champion Chess Challengers. The model number was "FP," which I assume stands for Fidelity Printer. (I can send you a scan of it if you want.) It printed out on a strip of thermal paper using a special "disappearing ink." I played a game against the Champion at the store one time and kept the printout. It's completely blank now! Maybe looking through some old Chess Life's would give you some more info. Mark On April 16, 1999 at 14:15:30, robert wrote: >I'd like to be able to get game output from my old Fidelity Elite A/S Challenger >but have no information on the printer which would normally be attached to the >little round 5-pin interface. So my questions are: > >1. What kind of printer was it? In case I have to try to buy a used one, does >anybody know the model number for the original? Steve at Your Move mentioned >that the printer might be a modified Epson invoice printer; does anyone know >whether non-Fidelity printers will work? > >2. Has anybody ever bothered to make a home-brew interface to convert the >signals coming from the printer port to an RS-232 interface? I threw a scope on >the port and it looks similar to an old Apple interface; can anyone verify that? > If I could get some sort of EBCDIC or ASCII input for one of my computers I >could probably massage it into some usable format by writing a little routine in >C, awk or sed. > >I'd be thankful for any information or suggestions on where to find more >information (or an actual printer if I can't breadboard an interface). And to >answer the question "Why doesn't he just toss the Fidelity and get a TASC or >Kasparov autoboard", first, I like the old thing and second, I'm not really good >enough yet to need anything stronger than the Fidelity and don't want to sink a >lot of money into chess equipment until I see how well my ability develops and >whether my enthusiasm for the game keeps increasing. > >Thanks in advance, > >Robert
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