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Philhnnss Send message Joined: 22 Feb 08 Posts: 63 Credit: 30,694,327 RAC: 162 |
Wow, I thought I started out with a SLOW machine, even though I loved that little "E-Machine", LOL!!! Some of you guys really had it rough. Thought I was big time when I FINALLY was able to upgrade to a mid size tower with my MSI K7N2 delta motherboard. Sporting an AMD 2500 chip. The one that would overclock so well. But I don't remember what I got it to overclock to. DDR 400 memory. And my GeForce 6600 GT video card. Still on dial up. I still have the board, processor, and video card. But it's all in the box the motherboard came in. I am still amazed at what the newer systems will do though. |
draco Send message Joined: 6 Dec 05 Posts: 119 Credit: 3,327,457 RAC: 0 |
bit an off-topic, but i still have my first motherboard, with whoo i start in PC world in about 1994 - 286 with 1 Mb ram ( in SIPS modules?), 80286 12 mHz processor, and 8 mHz mathematic coprocessor (80287). some years ago when i check it, it working! i put it in case, get a ISA 512 kb video, multicard, 120 mb ide hdd.... great computer! :) sadly, but i affraid, seti not work on that old harware at all, because 286 not have some specific things for "protected mode" or so on - hardly remember...:) i also have my pentium 166 mmx ( it was very fast under win95isr2! much faster than nowadays core2 on xp!), and pentium 3 533 mhz: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=705516 but it is out of service for many years. sit and wait, where i have more time ( when i retired?) and got to some quake sessions, x-beyond the frontier and so on :) |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Intel 233mmx and a hard drive as big as a cinder block. As I recall, it was something like maybe 250 Mbytes. Seagate. Spun up like a demon, you could hear it a mile away. Kittyman's first computer. Before he even HAD kitties. I bought the components with the help of a geeky friend who was WAY ahead of the curve. And you know why? Because I had found the Seti project on my work computer and wanted to do it at home. I never had a computer at home before that. And the rest, as Paul Harvey used to say, is history. Meowinteresting, eh? "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
@Siran - The SETI "Classic" executable was a Win32 application and could not run under 16bit Windows 3.1. Even the "command line" version of SETI Classic was a Win32 application and required Windows 95 or later. Greetings, You are correct. I went way to far back in time when I thought this out. 3.1 was the first Windows I had on that computer back in 1996. I was probably running Win 98 SE or Win ME in 1999. I never had 95 and cannot remember when I went from 3.1 to 98 SE. Does anyone remember when Micro$oft released Windows ME? That would help in narrowing this down for me. :) Keep on BOINCing...! :) CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36826 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
@Siran - The SETI "Classic" executable was a Win32 application and could not run under 16bit Windows 3.1. Even the "command line" version of SETI Classic was a Win32 application and required Windows 95 or later. September 2000 was when MEss was released. ;-) Cheers. |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
@Siran - The SETI "Classic" executable was a Win32 application and could not run under 16bit Windows 3.1. Even the "command line" version of SETI Classic was a Win32 application and required Windows 95 or later. September 14th, 2000, specifically. So since Siran started in 1999, more than likely he was using Windows 98SE. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Thanks to getting a few bonuses in 1999 I started with two slot 1 machines, P2 350MHz and a P3 450 MHz. The thing that got me originally was the P2 was a fast as the P3. Then we worked it out the larger on board cache memory worked in its favour. Plus it also had a Matrox graphics card which auto switched off the graphics if you selected no screen saver. The red progress bar would have gaps. So then we switched off screen saver on my sons P3. Completion times were about 22 hrs. |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
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dnolan Send message Joined: 30 Aug 01 Posts: 1228 Credit: 47,779,411 RAC: 32 |
First machine I can remember was a Dell XPS T600r that had a PIII in it (don't remember the speed) and used expensive RDRAM dimms, I think I maxed it out at 768M of ram after a couple of HW updates. It originally ran Win 98, but at some point I think I updated it to XP. Don't remember the time it took for classic units, though. -Dav |
Bill G Send message Joined: 1 Jun 01 Posts: 1282 Credit: 187,688,550 RAC: 182 |
Wish I could remember, but I think it was a local made Windows computer. Got that after my CPM NorthStar finally needed to be replaced. SETI@home classic workunits 4,019 SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours |
Jim_S Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31 |
I started with a Tandy 486SX66 with a built in Math Coprocessor which I upgraded with an AMD 586/133, It had DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 and 32MB of RAM and a 50MB HD. I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.) |
draco Send message Joined: 6 Dec 05 Posts: 119 Credit: 3,327,457 RAC: 0 |
SX series, as i remember, do not have built-in math? DX series be with enabled math coprocessor, sx series - with disabled one...? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX and RDRAM ( Rambus) if i remember correctly was involved on P4 motherboards - in intel 820 chipset, not in P3 ? |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
SX series, as i remember, do not have built-in math? The i820 & i840 chipsets were released just before the introduction of the P4 which used the i850 chipset. As I recall all i8x0 were RAMBUS & i8x5 DDR. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
and RDRAM ( Rambus) if i remember correctly was involved on P4 motherboards - in intel 820 chipset, not in P3 ? The i820, i820e, and i840 were all PIII chipsets that used RDRAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets#Pentium_II.2FIII_chipsets. The rest of the 8xx series used SDRAM. The i820/840 could use SDRAM as well, but there was a known flaw in the translater hub that could cause data corruption and was pulled from the market. |
Jim_S Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31 |
SX series, as i remember, do not have built-in math? It May have been a DX and used 72 pin sims. Anyway that was way back in the 90's. I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.) |
draco Send message Joined: 6 Dec 05 Posts: 119 Credit: 3,327,457 RAC: 0 |
yes, i was wrong. now i remember, 815 chipset is for pentium 3, socket 370. i also remember, for p3 i prefer 440bx chipset. |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
My host 1033899 is what I used all through SETI Classic and came to SETI_BOINC with. In that time period it had 80 MB RAM, I upgraded to 128 MB when SETI@home Enhanced was being tested at SETI Beta. Joe |
daysteppr Send message Joined: 22 Mar 05 Posts: 80 Credit: 19,575,419 RAC: 53 |
My first seti system? amd k6-2/450 with 64 megs of ram. Took forever to run a classic ( like 52 hrs. It died and I got a p2-300 slot 1 that made me cry cause it could finish a classic wu in about 36 hrs..... |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
After that 233mmx, I went to AMD toasters, believe it or not. Ran the living shorts off of them. That is where I made my name, because nobody else could get them to the speeds I could without burning them up. And they ran REALLY hot. Really hot. I never lost a one of them, regardless. Cooked a few mobos though. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Cygnus X-1 Send message Joined: 15 Feb 04 Posts: 75 Credit: 3,732,505 RAC: 175 |
Today is my 10th anniversary with the project. I started out with and am still using this one: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6984656 At the time it only had 256MB of RAM and ran WinXP. I'm also posting with it right now. |
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