Very cool! Wouldn't it be even cooler if the museum could score a couple of the very oldest machines? I'm talking about the El Ajedrecista machine (1912)[1]

Very cool! Wouldn't it be even cooler if the museum could score a couple of the very oldest machines? I'm talking about the El Ajedrecista machine (1912)[1] and Caissa [2][3] (named after the goddess of Chess[4]) built by Claude Shannon. [1]. https://www.chessprogramming.org/El_Ajedrecista https://www.chessprogramming.org/El_Ajedrecista [2]. https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/stl-430b9bbe92716/ https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/stl-430b9bbe92716/ [3]. https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/2007.030.005?query=Shannon&page=6&resultIndex=62 https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/2007.030.005?qu... [4]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%AFssa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%AFssa Technically, these electro mechanical machines may not qualify as computers, but still, what a scoop it would be to get them!