DGT electronic board

Does anyone have one here? I am trying to find out if you can store games WITHOUT attaching it to a pc or laptop, the manufacture's internet site suggests not but reccommends a 'home made remedy' However when I emailed them (see below) they say it can. It just seems strange that their internet site does not say this, can anyone confirm this?

Dear Steve,

You can store at least a 1000 moves in the internal memory and when you also store the clock timing you can save at least 500 moves.
I hope this information will be of any help.

The USB power supply is a Zip Linq device. You might try to find it at the local computer shop. The url is: http://www.ziplinq.com/retractable-cable-pwr.html


Kind regards,
Bert



At 10:37 02-01-2007 +0000, you wrote:


Thank you for replying Bert, does the use of the USB cable allow games to be saved internally i.e. without the use of a pc or laptop, and if so is it restricted by the number of games or overall moves?

Thank you for any help you give.

Steve

----- Original Message ----
From: Bert de Boer
To: steve
Sent: Tuesday, 2 January, 2007 10:24:25 AM
Subject: Re: DGT electronic board

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your message.
I am sorry to inform you that we do not have a battery solution with a USB
port.
On the other hand we do have a usb power supply that you plug into the
mains 220 V or 110 V and connect the E-Board with a USB cable.
Perhaps this may be a solution.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions.

Kind regards,
Bert



At 14:53 31-12-2006 +0000, you wrote:

>Dear Sir
>
>I would love to buy one of your electronic borads, however the ONLY reason
>I want one is to use it to store bltz and rapid games without attaching it
>to a laptop. I have seen the link on your site to the 'homemade method' of
>building a battery with a usb port to achieve this, however I am not very
>good at doing things like this, and wondered now that a solution has been
>invented whether it is possible to simply buy such a device.
>
>Regards
>
>Steve Todd

Hi Steve,

I would suggest that you ring up Malcolm Pein at the London Chess Centre (www.chess.co.uk). He sells the DGT Sensory Board (they call it the Fritz Sensory Board) and since he is a real chess player (as are all of the other staff at the London Chess Centre) he will probably understand your question and will be able to test out a board himself if he doesn't know the answer already.

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Hi Steve,

I would suggest that you ring up Malcolm Pein at the London Chess Centre (www.chess.co.uk). He sells the DGT Sensory Board (they call it the Fritz Sensory Board) and since he is a real chess player (as are all of the other staff at the London Chess Centre) he will probably understand your question and will be able to test out a board himself if he doesn't know the answer already.

if you find out the answer please tell us too, I think it is a nice good to know answer...
In case it stores the games maybe it worth to be bought...