Author: Peter Hegger
Date: 09:39:35 11/04/99
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On November 04, 1999 at 00:08:58, Robert C. Maddox wrote: >On November 03, 1999 at 08:36:13, Peter Hegger wrote: > >>Hi all, >>I bought a Novag Diamond tabletop computer a couple of years back. Their were 2 >>reasons for my purchase. 1) I needed a portable machine. 2) My old "Fidelity >>master 2265" (supposedly action rated by the Computer rating agency of the USCF) >>was obviously no where near 2265 action rated on it's best day. <snip> > >I understood that the 2265 was NOT an action rating, but 40/120. > >Perhaps you have a knack for playing computers. > >Robert Thanks for the info, for some reason I always thought it was an action rating on the Fidelity. I did a little digging around and found that the ssdf has rated the "mach 3 master". It's #124 on the list, rated 1993. This is a full 272 difference from the CRA ratings at the same time levels. I could see them being 50 or even 100 points different but 272 seems a bit of a stretch. After playing the fidelity hundreds of times I'd have to say that the ssdf rating is by far the most accurate of the 2. It almost makes me wonder if the machine which was initially rated at 2265 was a souped up model or a one off demo designed to be around just long enough to get it's rating. This would be very dishonest of Fidelity but how else does one explain away a 272 point rating gap? Since Fidelity is no longer around I guess we'll never know. Regards, Peter
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