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Subject: Re: With 80 BG hard drives around $200...

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 14:28:17 07/27/01

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On July 27, 2001 at 15:43:12, Roy Eassa wrote:

>With 80 GB hard drives around $200...
>
>How many of them would it take to have all the following on a single PC:
>
>o Chessbase 8 with megabase (or whatever they call it)
>o Chess Assistant 6
>o "Total Chess Training"
>o Fritz 6
>o Junior 7
>o Tiger/Gambit (with the non-CB GUI)
>o Shredder 5
>o The 9-CD tablebase that seems popular nowadays, plus any other
>  equivalently-deep tablebases that may be necessary to support
>  the above programs (hopefully all can use that single one)
>o a couple dozen other freeware engines for CB and/or Winboard
>o MS-Office XP Pro
>o Windows 2000
>o Norton Systemworks 2001
>o Visual C++ 6
>o Visual Basic 6
>o Some good Java development tools
>o about 5 gigs of miscellaneous other non-chess stuff


I dont think that would fill 80GB I have all the 345 tb's on a slave 20 Gb hard
drive at home and it doesnt fill that up.

Ed



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