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Subject: Old Wine -not neccesarily a good one- in New Bottles...

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 14:39:51 12/06/00


I have made a trip along the sites of the main dedicated units manufacturers,
like Excalibur, Saitek and Novag, and, although all these companies presents
pretty units, I wonder If only one of all them, from the mere toys to expensive
units for "experts",  has a really new engine. I have the feeling that many of
those NEW brand pieces of plastic simulating wood are enclosing very old
programs, some of them of 90's vintage and even, I suspect, 80's vintage, like
the Phantom unit by Excalibur that I believe it is the old Fidelity computer of
1985 with the Par Excellence program -or a version of it- by the Spracklen.
Someone with info about this?
Fernando



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