Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 16:21:21 11/22/99
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You're welcome of course, Tina. But I really better be more careful about saying such things, you might even want to take me up on it, just to pay a visit to topside one day and I'm not even capable of finding enough space here to accomodate two computers...The least thing I could do is throw some stuff out now. Tomorrow I get new computertable, that should give me some floorspace back! Christophe asked about how much memory the Sinclair Spectrum had, I found the original folder! (Someone should tell me to throw some of this away, to sort the more important things out and be more responsible, please..) There were two versions, one with 16K, but only 9kB if you used highres graphics, and a 48kB version. Prices: 125 and 175 pound, British ones. A bargain compared with 450 pounds you had to put down on the table for the TRS 80 Colour, with 16kB. I thought those Colour Tandys were NTSC, translating to Never The Same Colour, so that's why we didn't see a lot of them over here in Europe? Anyway the Spectrum, I never owned one, was a big improvement over the ZX 81 which I started out with. That had a separate 16 kB memory block that that you stuck in the back. However the slightest touch and gone were hours of typing in Basic statements, much to chagrin of my sister who wanted to learn some of that too. I also found some interesting articles on computer chess of which I wonder if they are widely known. This one was "A Five-Year Plan For Automatic Chess", dated somewhere around 1966 or 1967, published in "Machine learning and heuristic programming". It was by a Mr. Good, Trinity College, Oxford, and the second paragraph starts: "The complexity and originality of a master chess player is perhaps greater than that of a professional economist" Would you believe that! It could have been said right today by someone, no? Do you think this Good was an alias? About you multipilcating variances, (sp), (sp! I finally found out what that meant, thought it meant "species" at first, ignorable me), I think you are right but think you know much better than me, also. If I find evidence to the contrary I will post on this topic and place again. Bye! Eelco
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