ChipTest prototype, main circuit board (component side)
Date:
1985
Dimensions:
12 x 14 1/2 x 1 in.
Accession:
L2005.5.1a
Description:
The chess-playing computer ChipTest was the creation of Carnegie Mellon University doctoral students Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell, Thomas Anantharaman, and Andreas Nowatzyk. ChipTest’s hardware could analyze 50,000 moves per second, and the second version, ChipTest-M, could examine 500,000 moves per second. Shown here is the main ChipTest circuit board. CHM_CreditLine Loan of Internet Chess Club