Production Numbers for Chess Computers

[afos99]

Hi

It has been well documented that CC7 was at 600K units the most produced chess computer. But what about other models. As someone starting to research and collect I know some models are rare and hard to find (and expensive).

Which are the good / interesting ones where they are reasonably plentiful?

What were the typical numbers produced - 5K, 10K or 100K?

Dave

[Fernando]

Hi

It has been well documented that CC7 was at 600K units the most produced chess computer. But what about other models. As someone starting to research and collect I know some models are rare and hard to find (and expensive).

Which are the good / interesting ones where they are reasonably plentiful?

What were the typical numbers produced - 5K, 10K or 100K?

Dave

I guess very few went to 10k, most probably around 3-5 k

[Larry]

The second biggest production run was the Fidelity CC8, but I didn't
hear of a figure mentioned. The industry was lucrative in the early days
before the market inevitably flooded.
Someone did mention that of the very user friendly club strength
Fidelity CC9, no fewer than 8K units went to France alone.
These days we can only guess as to the numbers of surviving examples
there are worldwide for any particular model. Rest assured that chess
comps are being thrown into trash bins in their thousands on a weekly
basis, mostly with quite fixable problems, eg oxidised ribbon leads. It's
enough to make a grown man cry.
In later years, production of stronger units dropped below 500.. In the
case of the coveted higher version Fidelity EAG's, they were only
produced as they were ordered.
L