Paxton's Park Place first appeared in the Chip Rack when one of it's former editors, the late Allan Myers, acquired a chip. That was in 1997 and Chip Rack edition 4.
When Allan sold his collection, that chip appeared in a Saito auction in 2005 and was purchased by the late Mike Heron. The same chip then appeared again in a 2012 Saito auction.
A post made by me at that time, as stated in the introduction, quoted information from 'friends of the hobby', not from me.
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/322/md/read/id/1174153/sbj/lot-89-paxton-s-park-place/
The friend of the hobby was Jim Blanchard and the source of the chips was stated.
So chips were known 15 years before AI seems to think. AI also seems to think my involvement with ASM/CPC started a year earlier than it actually did.
Oh, and Bud Jones owned the cards & dice mold until 1990.

Garbage in, garbage out. Make of that what you will.
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