Welcome to the 9 Year Club

Author	Message
Darren Young Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 39 Credit: 3,800,238 RAC: 0	Message 837634 - Posted: 7 Dec 2008, 3:25:53 UTC - in response to Message 539384. In a few short hours I shall have done 8 years crunching: SETI@home member since 3 Apr 1999 Me too :) ... contrats to all. ID: 837634 ·

KWSN imcrazynow Send message Joined: 15 Jan 00 Posts: 63 Credit: 1,163,256 RAC: 0	Message 838667 - Posted: 11 Dec 2008, 0:12:19 UTC 36 more days. Call me shorty. ID: 838667 ·

Spectrum Send message Joined: 14 Jun 99 Posts: 468 Credit: 53,129,336 RAC: 0	Message 839180 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 8:08:24 UTC On our way to a decade of crunching, gosh I am feeling old!! ID: 839180 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0	Message 871261 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 9:36:57 UTC Last modified: 2 Mar 2009, 9:45:10 UTC . . . just passed the February 29th 2000 Milestone - while havin' Graduated to the AstroPulse ;) BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . ID: 871261 ·

Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0	Message 871312 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 13:21:42 UTC - in response to Message 871261. Last modified: 2 Mar 2009, 13:22:16 UTC Just found this thread, I guess I'm a nine year guy too. Been through several sets of hardware, and several e-mail addresses, so I'm not sure if the date listed is real or not. I would have guessed at about that date though. Or did somebody say some of the old start dates are wrong? ID: 871312 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0	Message 871317 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 13:30:37 UTC - in response to Message 871312. Just found this thread, I guess I'm a nine year guy too. Been through several sets of hardware, and several e-mail addresses, so I'm not sure if the date listed is real or not. I would have guessed at about that date though. Or did somebody say some of the old start dates are wrong? . . . some are wrong - from the '99 dates - yours is correct - though, you are in your 10th Year in September . . . Congratulations Bill BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . ID: 871317 ·

Rick A. Sponholz Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 43 Credit: 23,179,807 RAC: 0	Message 871336 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 14:52:42 UTC I'm also a member of the 9 year club. I'm coming up on my 10 year anniversary on 13 June 2009. Rick ID: 871336 ·

Fred W Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0	Message 871338 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 14:59:26 UTC - in response to Message 871336. I'm also a member of the 9 year club. I'm coming up on my 10 year anniversary on 13 June 2009. Rick Well, what a coincidence. That's my seti-versary too (though I did take a few years off in between). F. ID: 871338 ·

Golden_Frog Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 99 Posts: 27 Credit: 1,650,057 RAC: 0	Message 871388 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 17:45:10 UTC Joined 9 years ago but not active the whole time. Does that count? ID: 871388 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0	Message 871393 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 18:11:45 UTC - in response to Message 871388. Joined 9 years ago but not active the whole time. Does that count? . . . indeed iT does mate - Indeed iT does ;) CONGRATULATIONS . . . BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . ID: 871393 ·

Rob.B Send message Joined: 23 Jul 99 Posts: 157 Credit: 1,439,682 RAC: 0	Message 871394 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 18:12:12 UTC Last modified: 2 Mar 2009, 18:12:29 UTC I hit my ten year mark on July 23rd sometime during the early evening UK time. How times change! ID: 871394 ·

Rick Geraci Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 7 Credit: 30,167,534 RAC: 0	Message 871409 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 18:46:09 UTC 9 years coming up on May 22. Wish I had had my main cruncher back then, a water cooled Quad core overclocked to just over 4Ghz. Such things were just Sci-fi in the days of the 166Mhz machines. I think my smart phone has more computing power than that. ID: 871409 ·

Rob.B Send message Joined: 23 Jul 99 Posts: 157 Credit: 1,439,682 RAC: 0	Message 871412 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 19:10:56 UTC Last modified: 2 Mar 2009, 19:11:34 UTC I started with a P33, then moved to a P66. Speed deamon!!! Strangely enough I found the scrapped chassis of that first cruncher at the back of my garage the other week whilst filling a skip, the CPU heatsink including fan sat neatly in the palm of my hand! As I said in my last post "how times change". Rob. ID: 871412 ·

Rick A. Sponholz Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 43 Credit: 23,179,807 RAC: 0	Message 871413 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 19:13:44 UTC - in response to Message 871409. Last modified: 2 Mar 2009, 19:23:10 UTC My proccessing power has grown over the years. I now crunch with 4 quads (2.4-2.83Ghz), 3 duals (2.0-2.4Ghz), 3 singles (1.0-1.2Ghz), and my favorate (also oldest); a 263Mhz Sony VAIO notebook. It still keeps on crunching SETI workunits 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Every little bit helps. Rick ID: 871413 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0	Message 871457 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 21:57:47 UTC - in response to Message 871409. 9 years coming up on May 22. Wish I had had my main cruncher back then, a water cooled Quad core overclocked to just over 4Ghz. Such things were just Sci-fi in the days of the 166Mhz machines. I think my smart phone has more computing power than that. . . actually Rick - it's your TEN Year Anniversary comin' up ') BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . ID: 871457 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 871478 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 22:32:09 UTC - in response to Message 871412. I started with a P33, then moved to a P66. Speed deamon!!! They never made a Pentium 33. The slowest and first Pentium ran at 60MHz, then 66MHz. There was, however, a 386 and 486 chip than ran at 33MHz. ID: 871478 ·

Rick Geraci Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 7 Credit: 30,167,534 RAC: 0	Message 871489 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 22:55:23 UTC Well, duh . . . . thanks Dr. C.E.T.I., how time flies when you're having fun. Why, just this morning it was only 9 years. ;) ID: 871489 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0	Message 871498 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009, 23:04:16 UTC - in response to Message 871489. Well, duh . . . . thanks Dr. C.E.T.I., how time flies when you're having fun. Why, just this morning it was only 9 years. ;) BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . ID: 871498 ·

Westsail and Pyxey Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Jul 99 Posts: 338 Credit: 20,544,999 RAC: 0	Message 871631 - Posted: 3 Mar 2009, 5:25:10 UTC Last modified: 3 Mar 2009, 5:26:51 UTC Joined on July 26th. I think like maybe 6 in the morning, remember exactly doing it. I was so excited. Heard about the project on discovery or some such. Was so excited my computer could do something useful when idle instead of flying toasters. My only machine was an IBM Aptiva 133mHz bought for like 3k at radio shack sometime mid/early nineties. Aloha all! waves "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov ID: 871631 ·

JJGalvan Send message Joined: 5 Sep 99 Posts: 19 Credit: 951,527 RAC: 0	Message 872766 - Posted: 6 Mar 2009, 6:31:54 UTC I still have active my first crunching machine, it's an IBM Aptiva that had originally a 200 MHz PII, I upgraded it to a 300 MHz PIII and then to a 1.4 GHz Celeron III Tualatin, that quit a year ago. It's back to 300 MHz PIII. Had to deinstall Boinc from the office crunchers due to internal policies, but saved the data directories, so I can reinstall them later to new crunchers. Still 6 months left to fulfill the decade crunching. ID: 872766 ·

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