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Subject: Re: Collector's Corner..Excellence 6080B

Author: Robert Weck

Date: 01:42:23 03/08/06

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>>Is the 6080B the 4 MHz version? (mine is 3 Mhz IIRC)
>
>hi Robert
>
>the 4 MHz was released for the EP12 and there was no change to the model number
>i imagine the 6080 could have also been upgraded to 4 Mhz but i have never seen
>a 4 Mhz 6080

ok, but on the pages of the Dutch Computer Chess Federation, they list a 4 MHz
Excellence (http://home.hetnet.nl/~timman/csvnp5.html)

>if you read the whole thread you will see i do not know exactly what the B stood
>for

ah, sorry, i did not get that far back in reading until now (i am here not very
often)

>the Swiss Collector i got it from opened the computer and saw no difference
>between the 6080 and 6080B..it runs at 3 Mhz
>
>and a top collector we both know told me he thinks the B was a small change in
>the program to fix an endgame bug,but he could not say for certain

but i would say, it should have been a bigger change, if it was worth a 'B'!
;-)) (if there were no other changes)


Robert



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