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Subject: Re: Collector's Corner..The Mark Of The Genuine Collector

Author: Steve B

Date: 14:38:29 06/03/05

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>
>Steve, that ARB is a real beauty.  I remember when that unit was reviewed in
>Chess Life long ago ("Katz on Computers" was the column in those days, IIRC).

Matt
you do recall correctly.
Katz was one of the first reviewers for the dedicated computers for the USCF
ICD(the sponser here) even hired Katz to man the phones for a chess computer
promotion they did in the early 1980's
it was something like a 12 hour marathon
i think i called 25 times
:))

>
>Does your ARB still function?  I always wondered if the switches ever wore out
>on those things.

yes thank goodness

but the reed switches on many of my auto-sensory's do die with alarming
regularity
Fidelity computers are notorious for this



my Fidelity Challenger
>SE12.

yes i remember you have the sE 12 as opposed to the sC12

a very nice computer and somewhat rare too

hold on real tight to that baby

Best
Steve




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