Dissident's online schachcomputer collection

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Dissident's online schachcomputer collection

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Does anyone know who Dissident is as I stumbled across his fine collection by chance.
http://jalbum.net/en/m/browse/album/153348/
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Chessmaster 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/
Dont know the name Dissident but the collection is really unbelievably nice
especially that Saitek TurboStar 2600 Which was never released for sale

http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... &%20Saitek:

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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

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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

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And how about the RFT ChessMaster Table 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
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Steve B wrote:

especially that Saitek TurboStar 2600 Which was never released for sale

http://jalbum.net/en/m/slide/album/1533 ... &%20Saitek:
Not to mention the Megathon 2400, also never released:
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
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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
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Anyone can put up anything. I'm surprised you just came to this realization.
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. :wink:
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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


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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
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Anyone can put up anything. I'm surprised you just came to this realization.
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. :wink:
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OK Terry who is it, or am I reading that icon thing wrong?
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fdimeglio 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

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 2400

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
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Chessmaster Ireland wrote:OK Terry who is it, or am I reading that icon thing wrong?
I don't know? My avatar doesn't suggest I know business, I have a couple of machines, that's all.
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