Author: Michel Chassey
Date: 13:20:11 11/03/99
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Hello Eric, I bought a brand new Fidelity Challenger in October 1983 for would you believe $ 314.88 Cdn.The model and serial numbers is printed on a label under the casing. Mine is model SC 9. It can still destroy this patzer. The two keys that you refer to are RE and CL on my machine. RE starts or restarts a new game and CL stop a function. Michel Chassey ICQ # 34801616 ************** On November 03, 1999 at 15:46:45, eric guttenberg wrote: >I was browsing through a second-hand store today and came across an old >Fidelity Challenger chess computer. By the looks of it, perhaps 20 years >old. All the pieces were there, it was functional, came complete with an >adaptor and the price was only 3 dollars. I couldn't resist. Nostalgia, >I guess, as I had one similar to that many years ago and have always >regretted giving it away. > >Since there is no manual, I don't have much information about it though. > >I wonder if anyone can tell me anything about it--vintage, features, >estimated playing strength etc? It is a 9 inch by 9 inch plastic housing >with an 8 by 8 board. The squares have LED's, as do 8 keys which run >vertically in a row along the right side of the board. The keys consist >of the symbols for each of the pieces plus one that reads CLR and one that >reads ENT. The pieces are wooden and magnetized and the squares and keys >all are activated by pressure. There is no display window of any kind. >The housing is labeled FIDELITY ELECTRONICS and CHESS CHALLENGER but >no series number appears. > >Any clues? > > > >eric
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