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Bernie Vine Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 5687 Credit: 14,362,402 RAC: 52,204	Message 1021504 - Posted: 1 Aug 2010, 1:17:57 UTC - in response to Message 1021166. Last modified: 1 Aug 2010, 1:18:50 UTC
	I am 75 and have been crunching SETI since 2004, and other 5 projects in following years. So don't despair. Tullio I wasn't despairing, just wondering where we might be 11 years from now. For instance I am typing this on an iPad with a virtual keyboard and touch screen that connects by wireless to a broadband router that connects via an ADSL line to the Internet at 10meg. All of that might have seemed like since fiction 11 years ago. I suspect it will surprise us all :-) Opps double post ____________
	ID: 1021504 ·

John Clark Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 15836 Credit: 4,356,364 RAC: 74	Message 1021608 - Posted: 1 Aug 2010, 11:46:13 UTC
	Just less than a couple of months to my 11 year joining with SETI Classic and then BOINC ____________ It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues
	ID: 1021608 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6231 Credit: 27,519,325 RAC: 8,439	Message 1024142 - Posted: 10 Aug 2010, 9:54:47 UTC
	After recovering a stray 2000 classic units.. I just gained 3 years of history. 11 years officially now. ____________ Janice
	ID: 1024142 ·

Frizz Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 271 Credit: 5,852,934 RAC: 0	Message 1024194 - Posted: 10 Aug 2010, 14:59:16 UTC - in response to Message 1024142.
	Me too :) ____________ Petition against 1366x768 glare displays: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_153240404724993
	ID: 1024194 ·

kinhull Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Oct 03 Posts: 1029 Credit: 636,475 RAC: 0	Message 1024201 - Posted: 10 Aug 2010, 15:20:22 UTC Last modified: 10 Aug 2010, 15:57:55 UTC
	Always going to be 4 years behind, but I can't believe I've been at it for almost 7 years! ____________ Join TeamACC Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
	ID: 1024201 ·

Compukatt Send message Joined: 5 Oct 99 Posts: 26 Credit: 10,990,663 RAC: 6,037	Message 1025271 - Posted: 15 Aug 2010, 11:54:41 UTC
	Whoa hard to believe more than 11 years have passed. ____________ Bill Auckland, NZ
	ID: 1025271 ·

yank Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 501 Credit: 12,321,497 RAC: 12	Message 1025286 - Posted: 15 Aug 2010, 13:01:00 UTC
	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL THE 11 YEAR GROUP. ____________
	ID: 1025286 ·

KB7RZF Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 9427 Credit: 2,097,969 RAC: 4,753	Message 1025338 - Posted: 15 Aug 2010, 17:01:09 UTC
	11 years ago today, I started crunching for this project. ____________
	ID: 1025338 ·

Cliff Harding Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 608 Credit: 34,412,050 RAC: 54,910	Message 1026456 - Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 19:59:44 UTC
	I FINALLY MADE IT !!!! ____________ I don't buy computers, I build them!!
	ID: 1026456 ·

Neal Chantrill Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 Sep 03 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,388,156 RAC: 0	Message 1026478 - Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 21:08:56 UTC
	Well done all, thats quite a feat. What did you start your crunching on? Mine was a 333Mhz intel. 1 Seti classic unit a day. Still awhile to go here I'm afraid, and don't really crunch seti that much either. ____________
	ID: 1026478 ·

John Send message Joined: 21 May 99 Posts: 49 Credit: 4,368,478 RAC: 431	Message 1026496 - Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 22:06:27 UTC
	Been there. Done that. Still Crunching ____________
	ID: 1026496 ·

Starman Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 120 Credit: 17,789,016 RAC: 49,781	Message 1026571 - Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 3:57:35 UTC
	11 year club here too. ____________
	ID: 1026571 ·

David Send message Joined: 6 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 372,092 RAC: 274	Message 1026603 - Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 7:30:36 UTC
	11 years and 3 months and still crunching. ____________
	ID: 1026603 ·

Cliff Harding Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 608 Credit: 34,412,050 RAC: 54,910	Message 1026701 - Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 14:38:46 UTC - in response to Message 1026478.
	Well done all, thats quite a feat. What did you start your crunching on? Mine was a 333Mhz intel. 1 Seti classic unit a day. Still awhile to go here I'm afraid, and don't really crunch seti that much either. If my old feeble mind is still at least partially active, I believe that it was a PentiumII, the RAM was maxed out. I don't remember much else about it, but I was crunching Classics two or three a day 24/7. I do remember I had to wait until DSL service was available in my neighborhood, and once it was up it was the first thing I did before anything else. I was like a kid with a new toy always checking the progress several times an hour. ____________ I don't buy computers, I build them!!
	ID: 1026701 ·

Odysseus Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Jul 99 Posts: 1786 Credit: 3,747,049 RAC: 1,928	Message 1027202 - Posted: 21 Aug 2010, 22:51:26 UTC - in response to Message 1026478. Last modified: 21 Aug 2010, 22:52:05 UTC
	[…] What did you start your crunching on? Mine was a 333Mhz intel. 1 Seti classic unit a day. IIRC mine was a 66-MHz Power Mac 7100, which took about 150 hours per WU. ____________
	ID: 1027202 ·

Wandering Willie Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 133 Credit: 1,283,531 RAC: 196	Message 1027205 - Posted: 21 Aug 2010, 23:01:27 UTC
	August 19th 1999 past. Just looking back when a WU was a WU SETI@home classic workunits 5,179 SETI@home classic CPU time 50,811 hours michael
	ID: 1027205 ·

Keith T. Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 Aug 99 Posts: 738 Credit: 230,190 RAC: 3	Message 1027683 - Posted: 23 Aug 2010, 12:09:38 UTC
	11 Years today for me. Started out with a 486DX2-66 at home, and a Pentium 200MHz at work! ____________ Sir Arthur C Clarke 1917-2008
	ID: 1027683 ·

evilspoons Send message Joined: 30 Jul 99 Posts: 50 Credit: 5,950,241 RAC: 9,048	Message 1027768 - Posted: 23 Aug 2010, 16:52:25 UTC
	I thought I already posted in this thread...? Anywho, 11 years and 3 weeks or so. (July 30 1999). "Only" 397 classic work units - not bad for someone who was 14 at the time and managed to sneak the extra power usage at home without getting my parents mad. A lot of that was on a Pentium 166 (I can't remember if it was the MMX version or not). Dhrystone2 puts that CPU at 189 MIPS. I think my work Core i5 750 hits 9079 on the same benchmark... and I think that's single-threaded. At any rate, that's about a 50x increase in speed (possibly 200x if you include 4 threads) in a decade. Cool. ____________
	ID: 1027768 ·

-= Vyper =- Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Sep 99 Posts: 949 Credit: 234,629,651 RAC: 180,760	Message 1031944 - Posted: 8 Sep 2010, 21:55:20 UTC Last modified: 8 Sep 2010, 22:02:35 UTC
	Darn i missed my 11 year day. We'll, now i'm in the club too! Kind regards Vyper ____________ _________________________________________________________________________ Addicted to SETI crunching! Founder of GPU Users Group
	ID: 1031944 ·

Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 2866 Credit: 1,779,680 RAC: 250	Message 1032037 - Posted: 9 Sep 2010, 1:33:50 UTC
	Just noticed I passed 11 years a few days ago. And I passed 1,000,000 total credit today as well. ____________
	ID: 1032037 ·

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