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Subject: Re: Five New Polls Now Up....

Author: Shep

Date: 05:08:16 09/02/99

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On September 01, 1999 at 17:31:54, Zachariah Amela wrote:

>>The hypothetical question about a proposed dedicated chess computer
>>is just that. It is not based upon any plans just my own little
>>private fantasy based upon all of those years when a computer
>>program came encased in a dedicated machine and software was just
>>dream.
>
>Rats, I was actually looking forward to that.  Even better would be able to use
>the "real" board as wireless network device and be able to put anywhere about
>your house and/or office.

Recently I digged up an old computer chess book from like 1981 from my basement,
and they had these $2000 computers with sensory boards, back then on something
like 68020 with 8 MHz!
I was thinking that today, at that price, you could have the same high-end board
with at least a 200 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM and "The King" or Hiarcs as engine.
Funny this poll is now echoing this idea... :)

[Maybe even the latest 400 MHz PII as you can get a laptop with this for $3000,
but wouldn't need the TFT display and huge HD.]

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Shep



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