Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 13:19:42 01/20/99
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On January 19, 1999 at 07:45:38, Lin Harper wrote: >I can't remember the price of the old "Challenger" computers, but just a few >weeks ago my wife was at a flea market and a stall offered "all you can get in a >bag for $1. All she could get in the bag included a Fidelity Challenger, cc1979. >It works fine,. the playing strength is good for a laugh. Very sad... I remember the day I bought my FC7 and how much excited I was. I even remember something of my very first game against it, at level 3 or so. And now it sells by 1 buck or less. This remember me another thing the french writer Anatole France said. He said that he plenty understood the real meaning of literary glory when looking at the baskets where books writen for inmortality were delivered at some cents the packake. Sic Transit gloria Mundi... Fernando
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