SAITEK FOR SALE FOR £25 MILLION

[Terry McCracken]

The problem with the Tasc co. were regarding their Smart Boards
it turned out they did not have the legal right to copy the piece recognition scheme and were forced legally to stop making the boards for use with their R30 units

soon after this they went out of business

Steve S posted alot about this issue when these boards were first created in 1997-1998

Patent Infringement Regards
Steve

Which did they use, Magnetic Fields or Radio Frequency?

I think it's a lot of B.S. actually. DGT uses RF and gets their arrays from Texas Instruments.

Everyone Screws Everyone Regards,
Terry

[mclane]

induction.

i see. this is the reason the boards were "outsold"

but the people would also have bought the machines with normal ree-contacts.
what a pity.

[Tony Thomas]

microsoft buys Saitek.

Bruce Moreland gets a telephone call by "the boss" and gets the job to produce the first microsoft chess computer.
finally ferret gets released .

I wish.

[Terry McCracken]

induction.

i see. this is the reason the boards were "outsold"

but the people would also have bought the machines with normal ree-contacts.
what a pity.

Very old technology. So it's electromagnetic. My first guess.

[Terry McCracken]

microsoft buys Saitek.

Bruce Moreland gets a telephone call by "the boss" and gets the job to produce the first microsoft chess computer.
finally ferret gets released .

I wish.

[mclane]

my vocabulary in this field is limited. i would call it induction coil.

[Terry McCracken]

my vocabulary in this field is limited. i would call it induction coil.

Yes, but it's electromagnetic, not electrostatic, or is it? Hmmm...maybe? Still a very old technology.

Now I want to know which it is

Curious Regards,
Terry

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

my vocabulary in this field is limited. i would call it induction coil.

Yes, but it's electromagnetic, not electrostatic, or is it? Hmmm...maybe? Still a very old technology.

Now I want to know which it is

Curious Regards,
Terry

Steve B certinly knows,but he will squeeze us for money to tell

[Steve B]

my vocabulary in this field is limited. i would call it induction coil.

Yes, but it's electromagnetic, not electrostatic, or is it? Hmmm...maybe? Still a very old technology.

Now I want to know which it is

Curious Regards,
Terry

Steve B certinly knows,but he will squeeze us for money to tell

actually i dont know the details of Tasc's infringement on the pieces recognition scheme used
but i do know they eventually agreed to stop using it

if you look up the posts on the old CCC i think you will see alot of discussion about this between Steve S and even De Koinig who used to post here in those days

Archives Regards
Steve

[Terry McCracken]

my vocabulary in this field is limited. i would call it induction coil.

Yes, but it's electromagnetic, not electrostatic, or is it? Hmmm...maybe? Still a very old technology.

Now I want to know which it is

Curious Regards,
Terry

Steve B certinly knows,but he will squeeze us for money to tell

I guess I'll have to research it, unless Steve fesses up