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Steven - KO4E Send message Joined: 21 Jun 99 Posts: 53 Credit: 2,434,487 RAC: 0	Message 1248586 - Posted: 20 Jun 2012, 4:39:12 UTC
	13 years... Wow time flies when your having fun! ____________ SETI@home classic workunits 5,429 SETI@home classic CPU time 73,472 hours
	ID: 1248586 ·

SciManStev Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 4962 Credit: 85,759,009 RAC: 36,756	Message 1248660 - Posted: 20 Jun 2012, 9:53:06 UTC
	I have officially arrived. Steve ____________ Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website
	ID: 1248660 ·

Neal Watkins Send message Joined: 21 May 99 Posts: 184 Credit: 231,654 RAC: 30	Message 1248989 - Posted: 20 Jun 2012, 23:51:14 UTC
	Me too. My how the time fly's. ____________
	ID: 1248989 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 18508 Credit: 12,362,507 RAC: 15,191	Message 1249749 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 3:00:35 UTC
	Give me a bit, but happy 13th Carlos.
	ID: 1249749 ·

chaco Send message Joined: 8 May 99 Posts: 42 Credit: 23,900,515 RAC: 0	Message 1249854 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 8:13:30 UTC
	Still here after all these years ....and computers, and homes, and jobs...but the interest remains. ____________ Confidence: Remember that feeling you had just before you truely understood the situation?
	ID: 1249854 ·

tbret Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 2917 Credit: 219,967,896 RAC: 37,177	Message 1249899 - Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 10:10:19 UTC - in response to Message 1243868.
	I hope in 13 years I'll be right here with you guys. That's a good hope, and I hope so, too. Chances are you'll be here when some of us have gone to our final reward. Then it'll be your turn to get the next 13 yearer's started. They'll have RACs that can only be shown in engineering notation. And Berkeley will still have a 100Mbit line into the office. <just kidding, nobody throw things; and put down that knife> Nobody said this'll be quick or easy.
	ID: 1249899 ·

alan Send message Joined: 18 Feb 00 Posts: 131 Credit: 401,606 RAC: 0	Message 1252828 - Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 19:41:20 UTC
	First result logged Thu Apr 08 20:23:15 1999 :) ____________
	ID: 1252828 ·

Mark Wyzenbeek Send message Joined: 28 Jun 99 Posts: 94 Credit: 1,792,081 RAC: 1,504	Message 1252832 - Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 19:49:02 UTC
	13 Years ago today ____________ 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
	ID: 1252832 ·

betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 2770 Credit: 5,923,027 RAC: 10,332	Message 1253026 - Posted: 29 Jun 2012, 2:26:25 UTC
	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. ____________
	ID: 1253026 ·

BMH Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 335 Credit: 99,189,050 RAC: 92,135	Message 1253850 - Posted: 30 Jun 2012, 21:08:39 UTC
	Oh I missed mine last month eats virtual party cake to celebrate belatedly ____________ Brian.
	ID: 1253850 ·

Gene Send message Joined: 26 Apr 99 Posts: 38 Credit: 3,256,525 RAC: 3,710	Message 1255184 - Posted: 3 Jul 2012, 23:22:44 UTC
	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. ____________
	ID: 1255184 ·

C Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 240 Credit: 6,763,844 RAC: 953	Message 1258605 - Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 23:18:27 UTC - in response to Message 1255184.
	Happy thirteenth, everyone! C ____________ Join Team MacNN
	ID: 1258605 ·

Todd Madson Send message Joined: 4 Aug 99 Posts: 59 Credit: 18,603,250 RAC: 3,384	Message 1274555 - Posted: 23 Aug 2012, 20:35:15 UTC
	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! ____________
	ID: 1274555 ·

Fred E. Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 22 Jul 99 Posts: 768 Credit: 24,139,004 RAC: 0	Message 1274573 - Posted: 23 Aug 2012, 21:21:21 UTC
	Guess I forgot to check in when my turn came up. I think it won't even be 20 years that we'll be running a hundred tasks at a time on a smartwatch, while it is streaming a movie to the wall screen and we're talking to others with it's video screen. But we'll still be griping about shorties and bandwidth! ____________ Another Fred Support SETI@home when you search the Web with GoodSearch or shop online with GoodShop.
	ID: 1274573 ·

KB7RZF Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 9464 Credit: 3,112,738 RAC: 10	Message 1274667 - Posted: 24 Aug 2012, 1:07:01 UTC
	Wow, I'm 8 days late! 13th year as of August 15th. Still chugging along! ____________
	ID: 1274667 ·

Cliff Harding Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1045 Credit: 55,813,617 RAC: 36,082	Message 1274951 - Posted: 24 Aug 2012, 17:45:36 UTC
	I'm not AWOL, just reporting in six days late!! Don't plan to be leaving any time soon. 13 years, doesn't seem that long but, 6 machines/countless CPU upgrades/3 op systems/four printers and countless HDD replacements/upgrades. HERE'S TO ANOTHER 13 YEARS!!!! ____________ I don't buy computers, I build them!!
	ID: 1274951 ·

Stuart Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 7 Credit: 5,094,738 RAC: 0	Message 1275363 - Posted: 25 Aug 2012, 13:29:46 UTC
	I'm late to this thread too. Proud that i have been here 13 years. Still want to build a new computer :( ____________
	ID: 1275363 ·

Alaskan Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 18 Credit: 50,120,540 RAC: 31,412	Message 1275509 - Posted: 25 Aug 2012, 20:21:05 UTC
	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. ____________
	ID: 1275509 ·

N9JFE David S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 13125 Credit: 15,398,495 RAC: 9,393	Message 1291242 - Posted: 4 Oct 2012, 16:19:29 UTC
	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. ____________ David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.
	ID: 1291242 ·

Dr Grey Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 70 Credit: 34,729,486 RAC: 20,994	Message 1291325 - Posted: 4 Oct 2012, 18:12:35 UTC
	And... still here :) ____________
	ID: 1291325 ·

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