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Subject: Re: Clear picture of the Mephisto Miami handheld chess computer!

Author: Heiko Mikala

Date: 17:53:34 10/14/98

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Hi Steve!

On October 14, 1998 at 10:53:23, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>On October 14, 1998 at 07:33:01, Eran wrote:
>
>>The clear picture of the Mephisto Miami handheld chess computer is
>available at http://www.schachversand.de/mephisto/miami.htm.
>
>It looks just like the Excalibur Viper which is
>actually manufactured by Novag. If it really
>is the Miami, then we have Mephisto which is
>owned by Saitek selling a machine made by Novag
>which is sold in the U.S. by Excalibur :-)))

I'm pretty much sure, that the Miami and the Viper have nothing in common.
The features are different and they even look differently, if you take a
closer look at them.
And yes, the picture on the web-site mentioned above shows the Miami.

Just about this Saitek-Mephisto-Novag thing... I think there was at least
one Fidelity handheld computer, which included the same program as
the Saitek Travel Champion, which now seems to be included in the
Mephisto Miami - at least there were some rumors, that the Fidelity "Travel
Master H8" had the same program. At that time Mephisto (Hegener & Glaser)
was not owned by Saitek by the way, but Fidelity had already been bought
by Hegener & Glaser. :-)))

Greetings,

Heiko.



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