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Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 778 Credit: 25,001,396 RAC: 0 |
What is the slowest CPU out there still gathering results? |
nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34253 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Yep, thats right phud. I paid $2000 for my Amiga 1000 in the 80th. And additional $1000 for a 20 MB hard drive. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Paul D Harris Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 1122 Credit: 33,600,005 RAC: 0 |
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. |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
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). Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
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. [/quote] Old James |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
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) Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
My oldest compy: The slide rule, also known colloquially as a slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer. 8^) ... |
nairb Send message Joined: 18 Mar 03 Posts: 201 Credit: 5,447,501 RAC: 5 |
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. Nairb |
nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
... And we're still suffering with a 10 based number system because that's how many fingers most people have... Joe |
Fred W Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0 |
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... F. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20147 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
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? Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
i think Douglas Adams was pointing us toward a 42 based method. |
Odysseus Send message Joined: 26 Jul 99 Posts: 1808 Credit: 6,701,347 RAC: 6 |
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. |
-= Vyper =- Send message Joined: 5 Sep 99 Posts: 1652 Credit: 1,065,191,981 RAC: 2,537 |
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. Kind regards Vyper _________________________________________________________________________ Addicted to SETI crunching! Founder of GPU Users Group |
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