Seti Classic

I've just had a thought...

Yep dangerous I know..but no animals were hurt in the process...

How many of you here were part of the original Seti@home and what are your memories of the project?
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Remember...Always look on the bright side of life.

Well before my time of course, but I heard stories.

Sounded like a grand place. :)
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I was in the original SETI for only about 5 months before i starting BOINCing...I remember being amazed at the cool screensaver but i really didn't frequent the boards much back then...So i knew very little beyond that...I remember the "gold nuggets" that crunchers got for the various milestones...Some of the crunchers at original SETI had some very impressive totals...

When the time was nearing for the old SETI to shut down i crunched a few more WU's so i finally reached the 100 WU milestone...I finally got my gold nugget!...During that time of transition i also made a few posts on the old SETI boards...I tried to reassure some of the people there that BOINC was going to be alright...It was not an easy job to convince some of them to change...when they had been happy for so long with the old system...
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Proud to be TFFE

The best part was, when I found my name in conjunction with a signal of interest. Still don't know what the 10,000 meant next to it, but it was so cool.
Of course Mr Sagan's program got me started in 1999, but then a computer crash and not knowing the original e-mail address set me back a bit. But what is 8 mos in terms of what we are searching for, nothing.
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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Cash Donation Specialist

The best part was, when I found my name in conjunction with a signal of interest. Still don't know what the 10,000 meant next to it, but it was so cool.
Of course Mr Sagan's program got me started in 1999, but then a computer crash and not knowing the original e-mail address set me back a bit. But what is 8 mos in terms of what we are searching for, nothing.

I joined in Novemeber 2000 but never posted till 5 years later.
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Damsel Rescuer, Kitty Patron, Raccoon Friend, Uli Fan,
Julie Supporter, ES99 Admirer, PETA Member, 1st Childhood

I joined July 15th. I am pretty certain that I posted a couple of times...
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BOINC WIKI

I joined July 15th. I am pretty certain that I posted a couple of times...

I remember the "gold nuggets" that crunchers got for the various milestones...

I joined in September of 2000 and crunched that until they started the first Boinc Beta then I switched to that until Boinc went public and there were no more WUs for beta I continued to crunch classic for a while on my wife's computer but before Classic closed down I switched to Boinc. I posted very little in the classic boards mainly when I had a problem with the software.

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

I remember the "gold nuggets" that crunchers got for the various milestones...

Ah you mean one of these....



And then there were Matt's test messages on the Social Club forum...please ignore

Yeah..right...that was the signal for all the nutcases to come out of the woodwork... ;o)

I joined right before the great bandwidth meltdown around Christmans of 2001. I remember downloading a wu completing it then wondering why it would upload and get another...LOL, it took until mid-January to find SETI Driver and the CLI version, then find a "public" queue. During 2002 I slowly integrated various w#$^ computers and was a regular visitor to the SETI Stats site and the forums....such memories. I almost joined the clinic, but was entrenched in my existing team. When BOINC came along I was one of the 'first' to attach a computer to SETI. I had computer ID 31 - which has long since been deleted out of the database. Ahhh...memories!

The King is dead, Long Live BOINC!

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Paul
(S@H1 8888)
And proud of it!

I joined July 15th. I am pretty certain that I posted a couple of times...

I remember you and Pam from the Seti Classic board. I didn't post there much though.

I had 26,060 hours SETI@home classic CPU time and I don't think I ever visited the original SETI classic forums.

I have fantastic memories of it though, when I first started on SETI@Home a work unit took my machine around 60 hours to process. SETI became the reason to upgrade my PC and I no longer judged new components by how well they increased gaming performance, but on how many minutes they could shave off of my crunch times.

Everything I know about upgrading and overclocking PC's is due to this project.

SETI@home classic workunits 2,621
SETI@home classic CPU time 22,678 hours

I stopped in 2005- when my PC developed a severe case of death- until 2007, when I learnt about Boinc.
I never visited the boards, until the big server crisis last year.

I used to run the cli through seti-driver- you could actually cache wu's!!!

It was all a more underground kinda feel than Boinc gives it- not that I'm complaining....the more crunchers the better

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SETI@home Classic workunits: 389
SETI@home Classic CPU time: 17,903 hours

What I remember most about Classic is the machines we were running then. I actually found one in my basement last week. AMD-K6-2 processor running at 400mhz, American Megatrends BIOS, Windows 98. That was a hot computer in 2000!


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Join the PACK!

I joined in September of 2000 and crunched that until they started the first Boinc Beta then I switched to that until Boinc went public and there were no more WUs for beta I continued to crunch classic for a while on my wife's computer but before Classic closed down I switched to Boinc. I posted very little in the classic boards mainly when I had a problem with the software.
1,511 Workunits
18,229 hours