Date:         Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:38:41 PST
Reply-To:     Mark McCulley <transporter99@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark McCulley <transporter99@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Micro Fiche Reader
Comments: To: bchristensen@INFOGENESIS.COM
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The ETKA CD used by many dealers is a single CD-ROM that contains parts data
(similar to that on fiche) for all VW and Audi models, all years. Because
they are line drawings (mostly empty space) the images can be highly
compressed and thousands of such drawings will fit on a single CD. Someone
on the quattro list obtained one of these discs and duplicated and
distributed a bunch to the list members. So there are some of these
"pirated" discs floating around.

-Mark McCulley


>From: BRENT CHRISTENSEN <bchristensen@INFOGENESIS.COM>
>
>I'll bet there are different CD-ROM's for each model or two, since graphic
>images tend to be pretty big, and a CD "only" holds about 600-680 MB of
>data.  Figure a CD for the Vanagon alone would have to cover over 1700
>pages
>of information (see clip from Bob Hufford's post below).  If each of those
>8
>x 10 images in black and white took up about 100k (at least) then you're
>talking about 170 megs, right?  (My math is awful, especially when it comes
>to moving decimal points around...)
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