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<DIV>This is some interesting history.</DIV>
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<DIV>Shibaden was related to Toshiba. Merlin got the right to sell
there decks and a few of the accessories here in the US. In fact I had an
AMTEC, COLORTEC and VELCOMP from them. The only difference in one of the
units was that a pot was added to adjust the unit for unity gain.
Otherwise is was a direct copy except for the metric hardware. </DIV>
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<DIV>Shibaden was probably the most blatant of the copy machines. I have
never seen any of the other Japanese machines.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now does anyone know about the machines that were manufactures in the
Soviet Union?</DIV>
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