Welcome to the 13th Anniversary Crunchers.

13 years... Wow time flies when your having fun!


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SETI@home classic workunits 5,429
SETI@home classic CPU time 73,472 hours

Me too. My how the time fly's.
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Give me a bit, but happy
13th Carlos.

Still here after all these years ....and computers, and homes, and jobs...but the interest remains.
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Confidence: Remember that feeling you had just before you truely understood the situation?

I hope in 13 years I'll be right here with you guys.

First result logged Thu Apr 08 20:23:15 1999 :)
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13 Years ago today
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The Universe is not only stranger than you imagine, it's stranger than you can imagine.

SETI@home classic workunits 1,405 CPU time 57,318 hours

It is close enough, I'm celebrating my 13th. As a present to me I'm buying a Zotac
PCI GT430 to put into my old P4 box. It had not run for over a year but it fired up yesterday, so away we go.
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Oh I missed mine last month *eats virtual party cake to celebrate belatedly*
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Brian.

1999... I think that might have been the year I upgraded from an i386 to one of those fabulous 486 chips! I couldn't let all those 100 Mhz CPU cycles go to waste. I didn't run 24/7 in those days either; dialed up an internet connection when a work unit was done -- uploaded the result and downloaded ONE new one, all at a blazing 9600 bps. No way to keep up with today's multiple-GPU crunchers but still chugging away on Seti, as well as a couple of other Boinc projects to carry through any Seti slack times.

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Happy thirteenth, everyone!

C
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Join Team MacNN

I kind of wonder - will some of us still be crunching away at twenty years or even longer?

What kind of machines might we have then.

Will we look back at our original crunching rigs and laugh thinking that today most of our smartphones are as powerful as those original rigs.

Think about it!
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I'm late to this thread too. Proud that i have been here 13 years. Still want to build a new computer :(
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I'm still here. FWIW I can't believe how far the technology has progressed.
For me it all started on a 486 system and now I have a high performance CPU and 2 video cards that do the same work in seconds.

When I started my user group, we had about 20 active users that would do the same work I now do on one computer.
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Just happened to think about it: today is my 13th! I think it's the first time in a few years I've noted it on the day and not missed it by a few.
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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

And... still here :)
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