Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:44:07 12/01/01
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On December 01, 2001 at 11:51:32, Frank Nelson wrote:
>It is my opinion that Excalibur has started a revolution with its LCD Chess
>computer and now Novag is blazing a trail with it's Star Sapphire computer.
>Just imagine playing chess without any loose ends to worry about. Novag says its
>SS pda with 1m program rom will play about 2400+. After the release date in
>January we people in this newsgroup should give the Star Sapphire a trial run
>with other delicated chess computers. We should not compare it with software
>because it won't be an even match as experts at ICD has expounded in CCC's
>articles. Hopefully there will be high sales so that more companies other than
>Excalibur get into the delicated chess computer market other than software
>companies like ChessBase.
>
>me. Frank
I don't understand why it is bad that software companies make PDA products.
Buy a Star Sapphire. Then, next year, try to update it. What? Can't update it?
So just buy a Palm and buy Chess Tiger, and months after months you'll get free
updates.
Dedicated chess computers are DEAD. PDAs have killed them (I mean real PDAs).
Christophe
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