Hi Yoyoyoyo_chessboard wrote:hi all and particulary Nick and Mike
Nick:
i think we are all OK for the period starting in 1977 till end of 1989.
what i called period_1 to period_4 in my listing.
there are some improvments for 1978/1979 but we have correclty pined the boards.
after that, for 1990, 1991 i named two periods:
period_5 with serial number of 8 digits that seems to follow the previous algo :YDDDSSSS
and period_6 with 8 digits apparently (re)starting from 0.
if i well undestood you, you think period_6 is previous_5.
myself i think the contrary : period_5 is prior to period_6.
if i follow your article written in april 1990, i read that:
The result is Chesster Challenger, a computer with a sarcastic streak and a 500-word vocabulary that hones in on mistakes in an opponent`s game.
The game`s suggested retail price -- Fidelity`s retailers include Burdines, Sears and Toys ``R`` Us -- will be $199 when Chesster appears on store shelves, probably in July.
the game will be aviable in july 1990.
in our common listing we have a chesster in week_90_35, two in week_90_38 , two in week_90_39,... (so august 1990)
chesster and kishon extract :
http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/ITdnOFrU/file.html
so i really think that period_5 is prior period_6.
and that article seems to lead to the same direction.
kishon chesster appeared later, probably in last days of 1990.
i think also that mike's timeline is in the right order, and needs only some improvments on the really month of birth of a model, but not a total upside-down.
saying that it remains the problem i identified earlier.
the last numbering day of 1989 is 321 (novembre 1989)
the first serial we have from 1990 is from day 243 (31 august 1990)
even if we find a serial from december 1989, what did Fidelity do during that long period ? (between december 1989 to august 1990)
did they stop their production and moved it to Asia ? or anything else.
regards
Yes, Chesster, Designer and Bridge Challenger are probably accurate starting with August 31st 1990. It is possible that the 000's started in January 1991 which would also approximately fit the timeline for Premiere. Vancouver won the WM in May 1991 uncontested so even thought I put 0001 as Jan 0002 as Feb etc just for the sake of sorting the computers by serial number. Fidelity moved sometime between August - December 91 to ZIP 33172. Therefore the 0001, 0002 etc is probably not the month but just the order that the computers came to the serial table. Maybe all they did was separate the models only through 0001, 0002 etc and it no longer has a date match to it? Although 0005 for Vancouver would still be a date match for May 1991 ??
But you are right there is a 9 month gap in 1990 before Chesster.
Last computer for 1989 also shows only November 89.
Maybe between that period Fidelity was told to sell only Hunt for Red October and Knobel Klack or what ever it was called
Regards