VEB+Mikroelektronik+Erfurt

prior to 1983 labeled the //VEB Funkwerk Erfurt//, was a [|people-owned enterprise] (Volkseigener Betrieb, VEB) manufacturing [|microelectronics] and [|semiconductor devices], located in [|Erfurt], [|East Germany] at that time, and head of the correspondent //VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik „[|Karl Marx]“ Erfurt// [|combine] producing under the trademark [|Rundfunk- und Fernmelde-Technik (RFT)]. //Funkwerk Erfurt// emerged from a former [|Telefunken] facility during the [|Socialization in East Germany] in 1948. After the [|Wende] in 1990 it successively evolved to the [|X-FAB Silicon Foundries]. || toc =Chess Computers= In the 80s //VEB Funkwerk Erfurt// and //VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt// manufactured various dedicated chess computers based on their own produced Z80 clone [|U880], notably the SC 1 and SC 2, which in turn were clones of Ron Nelson's Chess Challenger programs, manufactured by Fidelity Electronics, and since 1983/84 the Chess-Master models with programs written by Dieter Schultze, Rüdiger Worbs and Wolfgang Pähtz.
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 * [[image:http://www.robotrontechnik.de/bilder/Standorte/FWE_k.jpg width="324" height="216" link="http://www.robotrontechnik.de/index.htm?/html/standorte/mme.htm"]] ||~  || **VEB Mikroelektronik „Karl Marx“ Erfurt**,
 * Funkwerk Erfurt ||~  ||^   ||

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Erfurt Computer Chess Team
project leader Holger Faltermeier and chess consultant IM (Bernd ?) Stein ||
 * [[image:Rft_programmierer.jpg width="555" height="444" link="http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/VEB_Mikroelektronik_Erfurt"]] ||
 * Erfurt computer chess team in 1983, programmer Rüdiger Worbs,

Honorary names
were frequently added to the VEB actual names. VEB Mikroelektronik ...
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Karl_Marx_001.jpg width="278" height="385" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx"]] ||~  || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Fotothek_df_roe-neg_0002793_004_Portrait_Wilhelm_Piecks_im_Publikum_der_Bachfeier.jpg width="258" height="385" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Pieck"]] ||
 * ... „[|Karl Marx]“ [|Erfurt] ||~   || ... „[|Wilhelm Pieck]“ [|Mühlhausen] ||

U80701
MicroVAX 78032, [|SED] central committee, August 14, 1989 || =Publications=
 * [[image:http://www.robotron-vax.de/U80701/U80701-Dateien/image001.jpg width="555" height="342" link="http://www.robotron-vax.de/U80701/U80701.htm"]] ||
 * [|Erich Honecker] receives the [|U80701], developed by [|reverse engineering] the
 * Dieter Schultze, Rüdiger Worbs (**1986**). //Schachcomputer Chess-Master CM//, rfe, H1, S 19-21
 * Christian Posthoff, Günter Reinemann (**1987**). //Computerschach - Schachcomputer//. Berlin: Akademie-Verl., ISBN-13: 978-3055002281, with cooperation of [|Rainer Knaak], Michael Schlosser, Rainer Staudte, Rüdiger Worbs, available from [|Wernis Schachlade - Computerschach]
 * Rainer Hinkeldein, Rüdiger Worbs (**1988**). //Schachcomputer Chess-Master Diamond//, rfe, H5, S 316-312
 * Karsten Bauermeister (**1999**). //Deutsch-Deutsche Geschichte(n)//. Computerschach und Spiele. No. 5, October-November 1999, pp 32-33 (German)

=External Links= > [|VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik "Karl Marx" Erfurt] (German) > [|VEB Mikroelektronik „Karl Marx“ Erfurt] (German) > [|VEB Mikroelektronik „Wilhelm Pieck“ Mühlhausen] (German)
 * [|Rft/VEB Erfurt Electronic Chess Computers] from The Spacious Mind
 * [|Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt from Wikipedia.de] (German)
 * [|VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt] from [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German)
 * [|Schachcomputer in der DDR from Wikipedia.de] (German)
 * [|Standorte von DDR-Computertechnik] from [|robotrontechnik.de] (German)
 * [|Integrierte Schaltkreise - Prozessor U880] from [|robotrontechnik.de] (German)
 * [|Schachcomputer] from [|robotrontechnik.de] (German)
 * [|OEM und Sonstiges] from [|Robotron-net.de] (German)
 * [|Mikroelektronik - Wikimedia Commons]
 * [|Robotron - Hardwareüberblick]

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