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Subject: Re: The Novag Star Sapphire isn't available yet...

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 08:06:42 10/19/01

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On October 19, 2001 at 10:46:34, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>On October 19, 2001 at 10:38:22, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Two friends of mine decided to test their handhelds Novag Star Sapphire against
>>Pocket Fritz using an iPaq H3670 10 games in 60 minutes per side, Final Score
>>was W6 D2 L2 in favor of Novag; pretty bad for PoccketFritz on a 206 MHz.
>>
>>Some Spec of Novag Star Sapphire Cost Estimated $250.00 Twice cheaper than an
>>Ipaq h3670.
>>
>>Advanced SH7034 RISC processor (1M ROM and 256K RAM) and High Speed 16MHz energy
>>saving CMOS TECHNOLOGY including Hash Tables.
>>Over 200,000 pre-stored openings from Master Chess, plus user programmable
>>OPENING BOOK
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>
>Pichard,
>Where did they get Star Sapphires? The chips to manufacture them
>will not be available till late December, and product won't be
>available until January?
>http://www.icdchess.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?page=8/80-N13.html&item=80-N13&cart_id=2600247.17861
>
>Steve - (ICD/Your Move Chess & Games)

I will find out from my friend tomorrow from where he got it, he told me that it
was a test version and only ten were made so far.



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