Author: William Bryant
Date: 16:37:16 04/23/01
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On April 23, 2001 at 19:17:33, John Merlino wrote: >On April 22, 2001 at 23:46:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 22, 2001 at 22:35:00, William Bryant wrote: >> >>>Now that I have a new laptop (for work, honest) with a bigger hard drive, I'm >>>looking to add the full set of 5 man EGTB's. However, I'm still stuck with a >>>v56k modem (no high speed connection). >>> >>>Has anybody burned the complete set onto CD ROMs's (or DVD's for that matter) >>>that they would send me to duplicate. (I'm not looking for comercial CD's, just >>>the complete set of 5 man tablebases from the Crafty site). >>> >>>I will gladly pay shipping both directions. >>> >>>William >>>wbryant@ix.netcom.com >> >> >>One possible choice here is Graham Laight. I burned a set of 12 CDs for >>the London chess tournament where he ran Crafty. If you can work out a deal >>with him, I don't mind seeing these CDs become "world travelers" where he sends >>them to you, you send them to someone else, etc. >> >>We are trying to buy a DVD burner now, so it might be possible to burn a couple >>of DVDs with all the 3-4-5 piece files in a month or two... > >Hope you have a big checkbook balance, because those things are brutally >expensive (minimum $4,500, last I checked -- not to mention the blank DVDs at >$20 a pop -- you'll cry every time one of them is ruined on a bad write >process). But, hey, you can just get the university to pay for it! I forgot! > >jm Standard Equipment on the new high end Power Macintosh's. Apple sells blank DVD's at ~$10 each. William wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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