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| Personal background |
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The first computer that I used was a DEC (Digital Equipment Corp)
PDP-8/E (12-bit computer) that was in the math lab in high school
(1971). It had 2 clankety teletypes (type 33 I think), and the
only way to load the OS was via paper tape. It had the blinking
lights, and finger switches on the front. That's the way it
was. And we LIKED it! I've been a computer-geek ever since.
Other memorable computers I used were the Dartmouth Time-Sharing
System, DTSS, running on a Honeywell (or was it GE) 400. The
college I went to bought time from Dartmouth. The upstairs
computer lab was 110 baud teletypes, and 110 baud character
based CRTs. In the basement at school we even had a 300 baud CRT,
WOW! talk about fast! 300 WHOPPING baud!
My first job used an NCR Century-100. And then we got into
Data General Nova 3, and EDS (Educational Data Systems later
"Point 4") computers that emulated the Nova. (Data General forgot
to copyright or patent the Nova instruction set.)
Currently using 4 computers to crunch Setiathome:
1. Pentium II @ 233 Mhz, 66 Mhz FSB, running Linux.
2. Pentium III @ 733 Mhz, 133 Mhz FSB, running Linux.
3. Pentium III @ 1.0 Ghz, 133 Mhz FSB, running Linux.
4. Pentium III @ 1.2 Ghz, 133 Mhz FSB, (Tualatin) running Windows.
The linux workstations are running off a floppy
based Linux, called the "LEAF Bering Firewall". Most
of them have the hard drive disconnected. You can
get this Linux distribution with Seti@Home already
installed on it at:
http://bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/homepage/staff/seti/LRP-DL.htm
I'm running them off a D-link 704 router/switch plus
another Belkin 5 port switch.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Well, my momma said she was half alien. Her momma was all alien, who
was cross-bred with a male human (from this planet, not a human from
another planet). Momma said she was bred with Elvis Presley when the
aliens kidnapped him for just one night, and so that makes me 1/4 alien.
She says I get my computer ability from the alien side of the family.
Momma says I can look like Elvis if I comb my hair just right, but I
could never duplicate his lip curl. Momma says that the alien genes
are just a bit more dominant than the human genes.
Momma says forget about grey or green aliens, and that they look
like us, and you really can't tell aliens from humans unless you
do x-rays or an autopsy and look real carefully, and even then it
would just look like a genetic abnormality, and not something you
could hang your hat on and say "Lookee here! It's gotta be alien!"
I asked momma about the alien implant things, and she said yeah,
they put tiny chips in all the babies born in the cross-breeding
projects, but it's real tiny, and not at all like those big things
people get shoved up their nose like on the X-files or other movies.
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