I'm a 37 year old computer engineer in Australia. I have been running my own I.T. consulting business since 2000. I got my first computer in 1982. It had a 6502 CPU and ran at 2MHz. With 16K RAM it was said to be one of the most powerful home computers in it's time.
Check it out.
http://www.pospisil.com.au/vintage/wizzard/dick_smith_wizzard.htm
It had no hard disk although apparently you could buy a floppy drive. I could never find a floppy drive for it. I stored everything to audio cassette. It would take ages to load/save.
Imagine processing Seti on this!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I really don't think we'll find anything. I process units because I enjoy the technology behind it all.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
