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Dissident's online schachcomputer collection
Does anyone know who Dissident is as I stumbled across his fine collection by chance.
http://jalbum.net/en/m/browse/album/153348/
http://jalbum.net/en/m/browse/album/153348/
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Re: Dissident's online schachcomputer collection
Dont know the name Dissident but the collection is really unbelievably niceChessmaster Ireland wrote:Does anyone know who Dissident is as I stumbled across his fine collection by chance.
http://jalbum.net/en/m/browse/album/153348/
especially that Saitek TurboStar 2600 Which was never released for sale
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... &%20Saitek:
Hmmm Regards
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Re: Dissident's online schachcomputer collection
What about also this Wundermaschine too Steve ?
As there are only a few of them, you could then know who is owning it, right ?
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/41
Fabrice
As there are only a few of them, you could then know who is owning it, right ?
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/41
Fabrice
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Re: Dissident's online schachcomputer collection
And how about the RFT ChessMaster Table Fabrice?fdimeglio wrote:What about also this Wundermaschine too Steve ?
As there are only a few of them, you could then know who is owning it, right ?
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/41
Fabrice
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... path/Mixed:
i know not more then 10 Wundermachines were ever made and even less Chess Master tables
i guess its possible this guy has both (although its not possible he owns a TBS 2600)
i think this site could be just a collection of photos of various chess computers and not necessary computers he owns
does it say anywhere that he actually owns any of these computers?
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There's a dissident70 on eBay sells a lot of chess stuff, http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/dissident70/m ... ksid=p3686
Re: Dissident's online schachcomputer collection
Not to mention the Megathon 2400, also never released:Steve B wrote:
especially that Saitek TurboStar 2600 Which was never released for sale
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... &%20Saitek:
http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/in ... athon_2400
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I don't think that it's dissident70 as this is Ken Gorman (Doska) supplier of chess computers since the early days. I can't see him calling them Schachcomputers?
The two unreleased Turbostar & Megathon, I'm sure I've seen before on some Saitek brochure. Both have an artificial blue background?
There's also a photo of the unreleased Excalibur Talking Robot so all photos are obviously not in his collection!!
BTW a Conchess Escort has appeared today on eBay UK
Sherlock Regards
Bryan
The two unreleased Turbostar & Megathon, I'm sure I've seen before on some Saitek brochure. Both have an artificial blue background?
There's also a photo of the unreleased Excalibur Talking Robot so all photos are obviously not in his collection!!
BTW a Conchess Escort has appeared today on eBay UK
Sherlock Regards
Bryan
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Anyone can put up anything. I'm surprised you just came to this realization.Chessmaster Ireland wrote:I don't think that it's dissident70 as this is Ken Gorman (Doska) supplier of chess computers since the early days. I can't see him calling them Schachcomputers?
The two unreleased Turbostar & Megathon, I'm sure I've seen before on some Saitek brochure. Both have an artificial blue background?
There's also a photo of the unreleased Excalibur Talking Robot so all photos are obviously not in his collection!!
BTW a Conchess Escort has appeared today on eBay UK
Sherlock Regards
Bryan
Steve especially, as he's usually more diligent in checking sources.
This person may indeed have a large collection or he may be only collecting photos.
Terry McCracken
I would agree with Terry actually. Look at this Montreal photo:
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/35
Same for this Chesster one:
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/32
Seems not real and a superposition of two photos. No collector would do that except marketing people for pushing product in Ads.
Also I have never heard of the Fidelity Chess Challenger 2300 (@Steve please tell us more), so this photo may be just an Ad too:
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/38
Am I a Photo Collector Regards ?
Fabrice
PS: here is a little gem in that photo collection. A Sensory 9 t-shirt:
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/52
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/35
Same for this Chesster one:
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/32
Seems not real and a superposition of two photos. No collector would do that except marketing people for pushing product in Ads.
Also I have never heard of the Fidelity Chess Challenger 2300 (@Steve please tell us more), so this photo may be just an Ad too:
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/38
Am I a Photo Collector Regards ?
Fabrice
PS: here is a little gem in that photo collection. A Sensory 9 t-shirt:
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/52
Terry McCracken wrote:Anyone can put up anything. I'm surprised you just came to this realization.Chessmaster Ireland wrote:I don't think that it's dissident70 as this is Ken Gorman (Doska) supplier of chess computers since the early days. I can't see him calling them Schachcomputers?
The two unreleased Turbostar & Megathon, I'm sure I've seen before on some Saitek brochure. Both have an artificial blue background?
There's also a photo of the unreleased Excalibur Talking Robot so all photos are obviously not in his collection!!
BTW a Conchess Escort has appeared today on eBay UK
Sherlock Regards
Bryan
Steve especially, as he's usually more diligent in checking sources.
This person may indeed have a large collection or he may be only collecting photos.
Looking for a nice Fidelity EAG or A/S and a Odin Encore. Please send me a private message.
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just another computer that never saw the light of day Fabrice..although it did appear in an advertising brochure as did the TBS 2600 and Saitek Megathon 2400fdimeglio wrote:
Also I have never heard of the Fidelity Chess Challenger 2300 (@Steve please tell us more), so this photo may be just an Ad too:
http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... :/photo/38
Am I a Photo Collector Regards ?
Fabrice
i was being a bit tongue-n-cheek in my very first post when i used the term "Unbelievably " nice
i was subtly implying that i didn't believe this was a collection of computers that he actually owned
seems fairly obvious by now this is a collection of photos from various brochures ,advertising inserts and even other online sources
that CC2300 photo comes directly from the Wiki entry for it
Case Closed Regards
Steve
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