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Subject: Re: downloading tablebases question

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 12:47:30 01/31/05

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On January 31, 2005 at 01:04:23, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>I currently generated more than 1Tb of TBs.
>
>You can put ~8.5Gb on dual layer DVD.
>
>1Tb/8.5Gb == 118 DVDs, with more to come.
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene

But I bet you could generate a 10-DVD set of the most useful tablebases.

anthony

>On January 31, 2005 at 00:54:29, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>
>>Do you plan in the future... to offer a DVD bundle that has all known egtb's?
>>Figure it would prob be around 20-30 DVD's (6piece will consume most of it)...
>>but for us with limited BW.. I know for one I'd be willing to pay for the
>>service, than saturate my cable modem for a month or two or three.. and I just
>>dont have the HD space as of yet (dreams of buying 1-2 200gig HD's hehe)
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Joshua Shriver
>>
>>On January 29, 2005 at 15:36:43, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On January 29, 2005 at 09:17:50, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>>>
>>>>Amazing bargain! I plan to get the 10 DVD set.
>>>
>>>Well as I stated before I am not looking to make any money from it at all.
>>>
>>>I took the cost of DVD Media, envelopes, cd sleeves, postage labels and divided
>>>them into sets, then divided the price per package. The final cost was
>>>$1.51/DVD... that is pretty decent and saves many users time and bandwidth
>>>downloading those massive 6 man bases.
>>>
>>>Peter



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