Old timers chime in....

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Viztech

Originally posted by: 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...

Oh man, that was fun!

Various members would conspire to put a cow or two, or ten 🙂 crunching someone's account, then flush all at once! I think I was the beneficiary once.

I ran a couple herds of 486s crunching RC5 and OGR.

One at the school where I volunteered and another at my workplace.

It was nice when we got them on a network so I didn't have to sneakernet. Shared the buffers until you would get a file lock when two machines hit at the same time. Then I setup a proxy server. I had to sneakernet the proxy until I got access to a phone line and could flush over a 14.4 modem.

Aww, those were the days!

How about CrackRacks? I used to heat my basement with one. 😀

/viz waves at the other oldtimers

:shocked:

 

[EULA]

I remember crunching with 80 AMD XP 2400+ on United Devices... 😛

 

[Possessed Freak]

486? no. But I did use several Pentium 1 machines (I even had a dual pentium 133 crunching at one time).
I recall the mini-teams and the friends I made.
I recall disabling scsi on my board just so I could get my dual P2-400's to 448.
And I will always remember UT, the official... unofficial game of Team Anandtech (keyboard only for the win).