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Subject: Re: Complete EGTBs on 4 CDs?

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 12:45:17 12/09/01

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On December 09, 2001 at 15:44:41, Sally Weltrop wrote:

>On December 09, 2001 at 15:39:18, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>U can give "Burn to the Brim" programa try:
>
>http://bttb.cdmediaworld.com/


forgot to mention it's free as well



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