Mephisto Europa

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|| [[image:MehphistoEuropa.jpg link="http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/europa___schachschule.html"]] ||~ || **Mephisto Europa**,
a low cost [[Dedicated Chess Computers|dedicated chess computer]] released in 1987 by [[Hegener & Glaser]] featuring a [[6800]] compatible [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi|Hitachi]] [[6800#6301|6301Y0]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit|8-bit]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS|CMOS]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontroller|microcontroller unit]] (MCU) <ref>[[https://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php?title=Mephisto_Europa|Mephisto Europa]] from [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En|Schachcomputer.info Wiki]] (German)</ref> <ref>[[http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/124098/HITACHI/HD6301Y0.html|HD6301Y0 Datasheet(PDF) - Hitachi Semiconductor]]</ref>, a [[Sensory Board|sensory board]] with [[Files|file]] and [[Ranks|rank]] indicator [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode|leds]], and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane_keyboard|membrane keypad]] plus status leds inside a plastic housing. The chess program by [[Frans Morsch]] resides in the MCU integrated 16 KiB [[Memory#ROM|ROM]] where it had to manage the only 256 bytes of integrated [[Memory#RAM|RAM]]. Its internal identical successor **Mephisto Europa A** was further marketed as **Mephisto Schachschule** (Chess school) with integrated chess lessons along with the accompanied chess teaching book by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Pfleger|Helmut Pfleger]] and [[Ossi Weiner]] <ref>[[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/europa___schachschule.html|Mephisto Europa & Schachschule Electronic Chess Computer]] by [[The Spacious Mind]]</ref>.  Mephisto Europa played the [[First International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR 1989]] <ref> [[Alexander Timofeev]] (**1989**). //Report on the 1st International Chess-Computer Tournament in the USSR//. [[ICGA Journal#12_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2]]</ref>. ||
|| Mephisto Europa <ref>Image cropped from [[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/europa___schachschule.html|Mephisto Europa & Schachschule Electronic Chess Computer]] by [[The Spacious Mind]]</ref> ||~ ||^ ||
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=See also=
* [[Mephisto Mondial]]
* [[Saitek Brute Force]]

=External Links=
* [[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/europa___schachschule.html|Mephisto Europa & Schachschule Electronic Chess Computer]] by [[The Spacious Mind]]
* [[https://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php?title=Mephisto_Europa|Mephisto Europa]] from [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En|Schachcomputer.info Wiki]] (German)
> [[https://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php?title=Mephisto_Europa_A|Mephisto Europa A]] from [[http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite_En|Schachcomputer.info Wiki]] (German)
* [[http://www.schachcomputer.at/mepeuropa.htm|Mephisto Europa]] from [[http://www.schachcomputer.at/|Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage]] by [[Kurt Kispert]] (German)

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