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Subject: Re: Collector's Corner..Novag Conny Expert Hits..

Author: Stefan Ottow

Date: 13:16:20 11/21/05

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On November 20, 2005 at 17:16:59, Steve B wrote:

>>
>>To my knowledge, Novag released as follows (only top computers: plastic version
>>- wood version)
>>
>>Super Conny - no wood issue
>>no plastic issue - Expert
>>Forte A - no wood issue
>>Forte B - no wood issue
>>Super Forte A/B/C - Super Expert A/B/C
>>
>>Only the Super Forte/Super Expert series was available with identical programs
>>in plastic and wooden housings.
>
>
>yes this was what i remembered ,that the Super F's were identical(program wise)
>to Super Experts
>but in my question i confused the Super F's with the Regular F's
>
>
>i am looking through a Novag catalogue from 1987 and it shows that the Forte B
>is very similar to the Connie Expert
>
>both have:
>65C02 proccesors
>64 KB
>5 Mhz clockspeed
>
>differences:
>Book FB-20K
>BOOk CE-22K
>
>and some minor differnces in features
>
>its interesting because the SSDF only rates a Connie  Expert 4 MHZ  but of
>course the CE was mainly released at 5MHZ
>
>they do not rate a CE 5 Mhz at all but jump to the Forte A  then B then to SE/SF
>
>Best
>Steve

Steve,

thats exactly it. The Forte is not that great machine. And honestly I would not
go for it for about 200 EUR or more.

best regards
Stefan



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