Old timers chime in....

[Wolfie]

Alright, who's still here from the old dayz? 🙂
And who still crunches?

Ok, so it's been a while since I have been here. But I still crunch...

 

[Neurodog]

Can't say that I've crunched with my 486's but did with my Pentium 100 back in 1999 when seti started.

 

[RaySun2Be]

*sigh*

I do. 🙂 Back when I was running the RC5 bovine project. Mooo! 😀

I posted the following back in April of 2000, from Assimilators Saved DC Forum Threads:

Home, all doing RC5 24/7:
1 Cely300A@464
1 P100
Crack Rack Nodes RC5 24/7:
2 P75@100
1 K133
1 486DX/66

Son's friend doing RC5 whenever it's on:
1 PIII500

Work all running RC5
1 Server 266mhz 24/7
1 Server Dual P200 24/7
11 PCs ranging from P75@100 to 266mhz 24/7
10 PCs ranging from 166mhz to 266mhz on during work day
Occasional (read: rare) access to Dual PIII600 Server whenever it's pulled from production

 

[Drsignguy]

I did SETI back in the day with my 486dx33, was probably about 1995-96ish if I remember correctly. I still have parts, pieces of that same rig..........still runs, only as a Pentium 200mhz. Updated the mobo and cpu.😛

 

[Freewolf]

I did but can't say I remember it all that well.

 

[sduguid]

I don't think I ever ran a 486 but I do remember crunching Seti on a Cyrix 5x86 which took 11 days per work unit!

By the way, I just fired up Boinc and started Seti again after a long break. Only on an old Sempron right now but it's nice to be back.

 

[Smoke]

After building my 1st computer (Celeron 333 @ 500? with help from Wiz), I joined TeAm AnandTech and started running SETI at the invitation of Assimilator1. The computer it replaced was handed down to my son with the understanding that he'd run SETI 24/7.

That was the beginning of Smokeball/TeAm Smokeball/TeAm Smoke/Enterprise/TeAm Enterprise. 😀

 

[MechEng]

If I recall correct I did some SETI crunching back in the day with my 486DX4-100...

Took forever to complete a unit as far as I can remember too... 🙂

 

[ViRGE]

*whacks Ray with Ray's own cane*

I must admit I did once run RC-5 on a 486 for the novelty of it. It wasn't fast, and since it was DOS it wasn't very easy to do either.:Q

 

[Alyx]

*hides his face* I don't remember back when there were 486s, I was to young.

 

[Fardringle]

I ran SETI on a 486 for a very short time until I decided that it was too painful even when compared to my lame K6-2 300mhz, so I turned it off before it ever finished a work unit.

 

[Assimilator1]

Though I started crunching SETI in Oct 99 it was with a 'modern' Cel 366 @550 😉, still got that same CPU in a working rig now! ,though it hasn't crunched in about 4yrs or been regularly used in 2yrs.
On the earlier versions of SETI classic (pre v3.03) it did WUs in about 7-8hrs, quite the powerhouse in its first year 😉.

Oh & currently cruching SETI & DPAD on my main rig (done some F@H too), I've only just switched my main rig back onto SETI in a big way after over 2yrs on DPAD.

I wonder what happened to MisterM? (my 1st SETI racing buddy).

Originally posted by: Drsignguy
I did SETI back in the day with my 486dx33, was probably about 1995-96ish if I remember correctly. I still have parts, pieces of that same rig..........still runs, only as a Pentium 200mhz. Updated the mobo and cpu.😛

Dodgy memory 😛 ,even in beta SETI didn't start til april '99 😉

sduguid
Good to see you back in The search 🙂.

Smoke
I can't imagine TA without you now!, one of my more successful recruites 🙂 ,when did you join us? [edit] (you never did teach me to spell properly :laugh: ).

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: Alyx
*hides his face* I don't remember back when there were 486s, I was to young.

Aw bummer.......... Those were the days! Good ol dos 5.0 and windows 3.0 and 3.1. Yup remember it well. I also remember when my friend asked me how big my PC was and I gave him the hand jesters of sizes😱

 

[JonB]

I crunched on an Intel 486, then replaced it with some Cyrix processor that ran frighteningly hot.

 

[Wolfie]

See, and I knew they where worth the days of crunching. 🙂

Now I just get laughed at if I even mention a 486. Oh wait, the first computer I had was a 286. And that thing hardly ran dos.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't remember if I crunched on a 486, but I joined the RC5 project fairly early on I think. I don't remember what kind of PC I had, perhaps a K6-2 or Pentium MMX.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

🙂 It's amazing to see how long ya'll have been crunching. Unfortunately, lizardth didn't introduce me to it until much later in the game. My first machine was a Tandy 1000 SL/2 (8086 @ 8MHz).

 

[networkman]

No crunching with 486s for me, though plenty of Seti & RC5 with Pentiums and Pentium Pros. Recall if you will, I had an ALR Revolution 6-way PPro 200 running the RC5 project. Plenty of coordinated flushes and dumps to mess with the Dutch Power Cows! 😛

And while, I'm not doing either of the above projects, I do crunch Riesel Sieve & Orbit@Home - and ALWAYS still only for Team Anandtech! 😎

 

[OhioDude]

I remember looking at the overall project stats in SETI when I first started and seeing that the top cruncher in the world had a grand total of 63 workunits completed. I thought to myself, "Piece of cake! Number one in the world, here I come!" Then I fired up the GUI client on a P100 and it took eight days to finish the first workunit.

Imagine my disappointment. 🙁

I'm currently crunching Rosetta but only with four systems and the main server is only crunching at night. At one point, I had 22 systems running S@H.

 

[Wiz]

I remember trying seti on just about anything I could get my hands on, including some real old machines that would (practically) never finish a WU.
I think the longest I tried one ran for a month before it either finished or I killed it off.
(can't remember which)

My big producer back in the day was one of those celly 300@450 rigs.
With the timings set really close you could pump out (IIRC) a couple WU's a day!
I had two hefty blocks of aluminum connected together with brass bolts - I sandwiched the cpu between them and on one side attached a HSF and the other had a peltier with another HSF.
This way I could set the timings really low and run at 450mhz 24/7/365. That baby put out a lot of WU in it's day.

P-90's were fun, especially the ones with the math bug!

OC'ing the snot out of something until it started completing WU's in 2 seconds then backing off a bit so they would work correctly was a fun way to find your stable speed.

I can't remember but there was a certain rig on which you could reliably set it to do that - I think that's how some people got some very high counts. That and hacking the client of course. :evil: :evil: :evil:

Nowadays I just set it & forget it for the most part. I look at the stats once in a while to make sure the machines are still running. I dunno if I'm just getting older or if I just don't have the time to futz with things like I used to. Maybe just don't want to deal with the downtime caused by pushing the hardware too hard.
(Geeze I'm going to be 50 next birthday! That must be it!!)

 

[Assimilator1]

I look at the stats once in a while

Uh-huh ,so you're telling me that whilst I'm bearing down on ya your not looking over your shoulder much? yea ok 😛😉.

:laugh:

Btw I stumbled across your approx join date to TA , 01/13 - 01/20 2001 , see here .

Smoke
You joined between 04/28 - 05/05 2001 🙂.

 

[IJump]

I strated in 2001 and crunched with anything I could get. I am sure that probably included some 486 machines....... I don't really remember though...

 

[Neurodog]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
I look at the stats once in a while

Uh-huh ,so you're telling me that whilst I'm bearing down on ya your not looking over your shoulder much? yea ok 😛😉.

:laugh:

Btw I stumbled across your approx join date to TA , 01/13 - 01/20 2001 , see here .

Smoke
You joined between 04/28 - 05/05 2001 🙂.

Cool! list of old timers!

75 Neurodog....................................... 3.3

 

[Neurodog]

Is there a way to search for forum members? For some reason I have the name Wintermute in my head and was currious if he was still around?

 

[Wolfie]

OK, who remembers the Phantom Flusher? No wait, ViRGE? Care to explain your mass upload a few years back? hehe I am sure someone has the IRC logs somewhere...