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Message 494703 - Posted: 31 Dec 2006, 14:35:15 UTC
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I joined SETI Classic a couple of days after they went "public" and carried on to the bitter end.

I was appalled at the lack of "public relations" at the change-over. An almost complete inconsiderate absence of information on problems that occurred. Hopefully all behind us now? Although I'm not too happy about the past 2 days. Hopefully information will be forthcoming after the holiday period in the New Year.
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Message 494726 - Posted: 31 Dec 2006, 15:06:11 UTC - in response to Message 494620.  
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Congratulations on 7 years.

Currently, in this thread, it seems pschoefer and I maybe the oldest members - joined 3rd April 1999.

Anyone earlier than that around?

What was the launch date of SETI@Home?

Sorry to disappont you but that date was given to many participants erroneously in a database merge. I don't think there are any real join dates prior to may of 1999, other than project staff.

The actual launch date was late june 1999 if I remember correctly.

I managed to sign up on the day following this news report, Screening for alien life on the BBC.

I think tomorrow-1-1 I will join the 7 3/4 club.
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Message 494764 - Posted: 31 Dec 2006, 15:44:51 UTC - in response to Message 493792.  
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Congratulations! May 25, 1999 here.
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Message 494899 - Posted: 31 Dec 2006, 18:22:56 UTC

I guess I am one of the "Senior Citizens" here, since I joined in early May 1999.

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Message 494916 - Posted: 31 Dec 2006, 19:13:03 UTC

I joined on May 31,1999. I accumulated >5K SETI Classic using almost 45K CPU hours on Win95, Win98 and WinXP machines over the years. I transitioned to BOINC to endure the early growing pains of the new Seti@Home environment in August 2005. I still remember "Scarecrow's" very exciting plots showing the recovery from extended outages.

BTW, I recently had my 50th birthday, which means 1 SETI year = 7 human years??

OK, I'm a dog owner and I sometimes measure time in "dog years"...

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Message 495094 - Posted: 31 Dec 2006, 22:19:48 UTC

Ha! Look at all the old fogies! Just remember, ya'll be fossils before I will! Anyone want me to grind their food for them? Can I get you a walker? Too bad! 8-)

(Just playin' guys. Congrats!)
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Message 495217 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 1:51:58 UTC - in response to Message 495094.  

Ha! Look at all the old fogies! Just remember, ya'll be fossils before I will! Anyone want me to grind their food for them? Can I get you a walker? Too bad! 8-)

(Just playin' guys. Congrats!)


This here fossil 'pears to be in fine company.

Congrats to all 7+ year diehards!




Final Classic total: 11446 WU
Classic CPU hours: 72,366
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Message 495236 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 2:15:06 UTC - in response to Message 495217.  

Congrats to all 7+ year diehards!

I wasn’t in the earliest cohort to join, but I kept with Classic until they shut the servers off.
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Message 495243 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 2:41:47 UTC

I'm also in the 7 year club, lots of us here. :-)
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Message 495246 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 2:51:55 UTC

Looks like I am also a member of the 7 year club and am working toward the 8 year club now.

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Message 495247 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 2:56:28 UTC

Gee time flies when U R having fun. 7 for me as well

When we finally figure it all out, all the rules will change and we can start all over again.
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Message 495248 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 2:59:35 UTC - in response to Message 494899.  

I guess I am one of the "Senior Citizens" here, since I joined in early May 1999.

Nick


Hi Nick,

so we are in the same class. :-) I also joined on the 5th of May 1999. If I remember correctly, this was shortly after SETI Classic became an open Beta project, where everyone could join, but the project was not fully public back then.

I first heard of SETI@home from the Planetary Soc., where I was a member in the late 1990's.

I also have two more Classic accounts: One was with the team SETI Team Germany, which does not exist anymore, unfortunately. I joined them after they had a nice team meeting, which I attended, not far from my hometown. The other one was with the team no disco, which was a fun project, where we tried to run SETI@home as slow as possible. I even managed to run it on a 386 SX without FPU and with as little as 5 MB RAM, which was big fun, but this box never finished the workunit. Even 'Doing baseline smoothing' took ages. ;-)

Yeah, those old times... :-)

Happy New Year 2007 to everyone!

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Message 495332 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 5:47:22 UTC

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Message 495405 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 8:20:44 UTC

Proud member since 22 Jun 1999

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Message 495410 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 9:00:53 UTC

I'm also a member.

Joined May 99

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Message 495458 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 12:17:53 UTC - in response to Message 493792.  

I just realized that I joined the seven year club - I joinged seti dec 29, 1999.

Christopher.


10th of June 1999 here.

I know there are lots of other distributed projects about but I never really wanted to do any other. I am a die hard sci-fi nut and this is right up my alley. Dont have a lot of computers. In fact blew 2 within a week of each other (one a rebuild from dodgy parts and the other was a decidedly strange affair) and rebuilt one. Only have 2 x 3.0ghz socket 775 P4s and a P3 600Mhz doing the calcs nowadays.

Not really here for the "credit" per se though it is pleasing to see the results add to the score (247646.69 which is not much at all). Just love the idea that one of the WUs I do just MAY be really something!
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Message 495462 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 12:19:42 UTC - in response to Message 493792.  

I just realized that I joined the seven year club - I joinged seti dec 29, 1999.

Christopher.


I joined January 1, 2000, so I guess I'm a member of the 7 year club now too!

John
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Message 495485 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 13:11:20 UTC

I joined 22 May 1999, not the earliest one on this thread but maybe the oldest at 56. Still crazy after all these years.
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Message 495499 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 13:35:10 UTC
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May 20,1999. Age 60

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Plus SETI Classic = 21,082 WUs
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Message 495541 - Posted: 1 Jan 2007, 14:54:11 UTC

7 years that passed so quickly! Hope everybody on the club continue for at least more 7 years.
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