Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 12:59:49 04/29/01
Hi: The article by C.Krantack about Excalibur LCD unit and another one - that I do not care about- has submerged me in even more confusion. Our host steven Schwartz say, in his ICD site, that LCD Exc. is "perhaps 1200 Elo playing 40 in two hours". Another trademan told me that this unit is around 2000 Elo at his best level. Now Krantack talks of "between 1600 and 1900". Well, my confusion only can deepen. But I have even another question: do we have, in Ecalibur products, something new or just old Fidelity programs with new names and even lighter plastic boxes and they are made by now in China? After all the owner of Excalibur is the son or the deceased Mr Samole, who owned Fidelity. And when you go to Excalibur site you does not find even a word about the programmer of his units. For me, if such is the truth, it is a mistaken and/or a dishonest behaviour. Mistaken, because to some people it would be a good thing to have the opportunity to get again some old Spracklen-programmed stuff. And for the people that does not know and care nothing about this field, it would be the same to see that X machine was programmed by Dan and Kate Spracklen or by Mr Villegas. And dishonest if by doing that you try to avoid the feeling of the knowleadgeable customer that he is purchasing an obsolete 80's vintage product. If I knew for certain that the strongest Excalibur machine is a new christened version of, say, Fidelity MACH iii, I would purchase at once as much in those days I had not the money to do so. Who knows? Who have the answer? steven? George LAGRATH? Mr Krantack? Who? Fernando
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