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Subject: Re: Complete EGTBs on 4 CDs?

Author: Edward Seid

Date: 12:39:18 12/09/01

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On December 09, 2001 at 12:37:17, Günther Simon wrote:

>If you take a look at the official CA Site  you can see that they
>have two different offers.
>One with all EGTBS on 9! CDs and an offer with 'typical' (3-5 men)
>EGTBS on 4 CDs which is correct.
>
>http://store.convekta.com/shop_model.asp?gid=121&sView=Catalog

Speaking of the Convekta offering, I believe that they are engaged in false
advertising also.  Their COMPLETE set is "9 CDs of 700 MB ".  Assuming that each
CD is filled to the max, that yields 9x700 = 6.3 GB worth of data, which is less
than the 7+ GB that is taken up on my hard disk by the truly complete 3/4/5 man
EGTBs, which I downloaded from Hyatt's FTP.  As a confirmation, the
comprehensive review by Bob Pawalek at
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rjpawlak/reviews/convekta_nalimov.html does not
list all of the 5-man combinations.

I wonder how many people have bought Convekta's 9 CD set thinking that it was
complete when actually it is not.

I plan to burn my 3/4/5 man EGTB collection onto CD and believe that a truly
complete set would take 11 CDs.  BTW, has anyone done this?  If so, how did you
split up the EBTBs to fit on as few CDs as possible?




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