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Message 1105718 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 16:02:21 UTC

What is the slowest CPU out there still gathering results?
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Message 1105721 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 16:22:52 UTC - in response to Message 1105557.  


:)
Don't you think this thread becomes "A Gathering of Old Men"
to chat about "Good Ol' Days"?

;)



i don't think its a "good old days" scenario.
especially when you think how expensive those early
processors were.

i'm ashamed to say that i could buy five
GTX 590's for what i paid for "the state of the art"
PII 400mhz and thats not adjusted for inflation.


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Message 1105726 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 16:44:05 UTC - in response to Message 1105721.  


:)
Don't you think this thread becomes "A Gathering of Old Men"
to chat about "Good Ol' Days"?

;)



i don't think its a "good old days" scenario.
especially when you think how expensive those early
processors were.

i'm ashamed to say that i could buy five
GTX 590's for what i paid for "the state of the art"
PII 400mhz and thats not adjusted for inflation.



Yep, thats right phud.
I paid $2000 for my Amiga 1000 in the 80th.
And additional $1000 for a 20 MB hard drive.




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Message 1105742 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 17:30:17 UTC - in response to Message 1105557.  


:)
Don't you think this thread becomes "A Gathering of Old Men"
to chat about "Good Ol' Days"?

;)


We all are getting older even you. Some are older than you and some are younger than you. I remember when calculators were all the rage some could be programed like a computer in the early 70,s before there were personal computers everybody had fancy calculators. Even before the calculators there was the slide rule which I used. Then in the early 60,s they had mechanical adding machines and before that abacus.
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Message 1105750 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 17:43:07 UTC - in response to Message 1105742.  


:)
Don't you think this thread becomes "A Gathering of Old Men"
to chat about "Good Ol' Days"?

;)


We all are getting older even you. Some are older than you and some are younger than you. I remember when calculators were all the rage some could be programed like a computer in the early 70,s before there were personal computers everybody had fancy calculators. Even before the calculators there was the slide rule which I used. Then in the early 60,s they had mechanical adding machines and before that abacus.

Maybe I was not clear enough -
"A Gathering of Old Men" includes me :) (born 1960) and my posts about old hardware in this thread.

I remember the Texas Instruments programmable calculators (using some sort of magnetic tape/cards/sticks).


 


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Message 1105754 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 17:58:44 UTC - in response to Message 1105750.  


:)
Don't you think this thread becomes "A Gathering of Old Men"
to chat about "Good Ol' Days"?

;)


We all are getting older even you. Some are older than you and some are younger than you. I remember when calculators were all the rage some could be programed like a computer in the early 70,s before there were personal computers everybody had fancy calculators. Even before the calculators there was the slide rule which I used. Then in the early 60,s they had mechanical adding machines and before that abacus.

Maybe I was not clear enough -
"A Gathering of Old Men" includes me :) (born 1960) and my posts about old hardware in this thread.

I remember the Texas Instruments programmable calculators (using some sort of magnetic tape/cards/sticks).


Born 1952 here. Your borderline old:)My first calculator was a texas intsrument. just four functions. cost $40.00 back in 1975 or 76. cant remember, Im old you know.
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Message 1105756 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 18:10:12 UTC - in response to Message 1105754.  


:)
Don't you think this thread becomes "A Gathering of Old Men"
to chat about "Good Ol' Days"?

;)


We all are getting older even you. Some are older than you and some are younger than you. I remember when calculators were all the rage some could be programed like a computer in the early 70,s before there were personal computers everybody had fancy calculators. Even before the calculators there was the slide rule which I used. Then in the early 60,s they had mechanical adding machines and before that abacus.

Maybe I was not clear enough -
"A Gathering of Old Men" includes me :) (born 1960) and my posts about old hardware in this thread.

I remember the Texas Instruments programmable calculators (using some sort of magnetic tape/cards/sticks).


Born 1952 here. Your borderline old:)My first calculator was a texas intsrument. just four functions. cost $40.00 back in 1975 or 76. cant remember, Im old you know.


And I remember the first Bulgarian electronic calculators (~1970) size of a typewriter
and cost of a Russian car (~$4000) that can do only + - * /
(no home user had this type of calculator, only factories/government offices)


 


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Message 1105774 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 19:01:28 UTC - in response to Message 1105756.  

My oldest compy: The slide rule, also known colloquially as a slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer. 8^)
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Message 1105776 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 19:03:40 UTC

For me, its the speed that todays wonder hardware becomes trash. And do we need a quad core m/c to surf the net or write docs. A 1 gig pentium 3 will do that. But the cost of the old kit was the killer. And it still makes me smile to have some socket 3 or 8 machine maxed out on edo ram and top spec cpu for the price of a couple of beers. And the lights dont go dim when its switched on.

But the most impressive thing is the gain in processing power.

I think my pentium 60 with 128meg of edo is maybe the lowest power that still makes the deadline for a long w/u. I think it took ~36 days. Utter waste of electricity I know. How many w/u would a quad core or equivalent do in that time.

But then in 10 years time a quad core will be sooo yesterday.

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Message 1105806 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 21:44:42 UTC - in response to Message 1105774.  

My oldest compy: The slide rule, also known colloquially as a slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer. 8^)

sorry...
the oldest computer you have is the one between your ears.
more complex than anything intel, amd or ibm make.
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Message 1105823 - Posted: 13 May 2011, 23:40:28 UTC - in response to Message 1105742.  

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I remember when calculators were all the rage some could be programed like a computer in the early 70,s before there were personal computers everybody had fancy calculators. Even before the calculators there was the slide rule which I used. Then in the early 60,s they had mechanical adding machines and before that abacus.

And we're still suffering with a 10 based number system because that's how many fingers most people have...
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Message 1105826 - Posted: 14 May 2011, 0:08:09 UTC

Don't knock the old programmable calculators. I bought a Sinclair Cambridge (80 step program) to spec the central heating system in my first house. It enabled me to size the radiators, locate the manifolds for the microbore pipework etc...

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Message 1106128 - Posted: 14 May 2011, 13:34:03 UTC - in response to Message 1105823.  
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And we're still suffering with a 10 based number system because that's how many fingers most people have...

Quite a few long-standing Yakuza have to count in octal...

You going quantum and dreaming quantum superposition?

Or there is the old Babylonian (base-60) system...


And what was the number base that Vulcans used for their mental arithmetic?

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Message 1106170 - Posted: 14 May 2011, 16:44:11 UTC

i think Douglas Adams was pointing us toward a 42 based method.



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Message 1106210 - Posted: 14 May 2011, 19:44:42 UTC - in response to Message 1106128.  

Or there is the old Babylonian (base-60) system...

Like our version of it (now used only for time measured in hours, and for angular measure in degrees), the ancient Mesopotamian sexagesimal system used an auxiliary base of 10. A true base-60 notation would have a unique symbol for every digital value from 0 to 59—not very practical.
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Message 1106253 - Posted: 14 May 2011, 23:08:47 UTC
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I remember those times nearly gonna list my systems i've had during my life

In order:

* Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K
* Atari 800XL
* Atari 130XE
* Amiga 500
Upgraded the Amiga with a Scsi harddrive
Upgraded the Amiga with a Motorola 68030 board and 8 MB Fast Ram
* Homebuilt PC 1, Pentium 120 which ran at 133Mhz
* Homebuilt PC 2, MMX 166 ran at 225 Mhz
* Homebuilt PC 3, Pentium II 233 ran at 337 Mhz
* Homebuilt PC 4, Athlon 550 ran at 650 Mhz
With this system i started to run Seti@home back then at 1999.
* Homebuilt PC 5, Athlon 800 ran at 1200Mhz
* Homebuilt PC 6, Athlon XP 2500+ ran at 3200+ Speeds
* Homebuilt PC 7, Pentium 4 2,8Ghz Northwood ran at 3,2Ghz
* Homebuilt PC 8, Athlon 64 3200+ which i ran in 2.5Ghz (Still in use be friend)
* Homebuilt PC 9, Athlon 64 X2 4000+ which i ran in 5000+ speed.
* Homebuilt PC 10, Intel Core 2 E6600 which i ran in 3.2Ghz
Exchanged the CPU to Q6600
* Homebuilt PC 11, Intel Core Q9450 which i ran in 3.4Ghz
* Homebuilt PC 12, Intel I7 920 which i ran in 3.4Ghz
Exchanged the CPU to Xeon L5630

And here we are today still. This was only the main system listing which is my preliminary computer.

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