I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450. I believe I was running a flavor of Red Hat or an early version of Mandrake...

U2

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I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450.

It must have been an ABIT BP6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

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

Did you use an registry 'hack' so your CPU type is shown as "200 MHz. Pentium MMX OverDrive"?

I think 'old' BOINC versions get this info from (on XP, the place may be different on Windows 95):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0]

... and 'new' BOINC versions - from CPUID

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450. I believe I was running a flavor of Red Hat or an early version of Mandrake...

U2

Oh the days of the BP6. Did you ever get the adapters to run dual coppermine cellerons or go for the single tualatin?

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[

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

Did you use an registry 'hack' so your CPU type is shown as "200 MHz. Pentium MMX OverDrive"?

I think 'old' BOINC versions get this info from (on XP, the place may be different on Windows 95):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0]

... and 'new' BOINC versions - from CPUID

Yes I did, well spotted. Win95 didn't set that registry key, so the CPU type was "unknown" without some help. I chose to add the key with that human readable description.

                                                                   Joe

I joined SETI@Home in 1999 using a 300MHz AMD K6-2 system with 32MB RAM that I built. It would usually take maybe 3-4 days to complete a work unit.

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Started with an Pentium (P54CS) 200 MHz, 96 MB RAM and Win95B (later Win98SE).
Even my older dual core smartphone is x times faster today. ^^

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.:morpheus:.

I don't remember what I started with; most likely whatever the "Wintel" flavor of 1999 was. A new PC was the norm every two years or so back then.

The earliest computer I have listed in "my computers" is an "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz" with Rambus DRAM.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2360001
I did some rough math and what I use today crunches 250 times faster.

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I started with three AMD K6-2, 350's, a K6-300, (later upgraded to an Intel P-III, 600), with one system on Win 2K, and the rest on Win XP Pro SP-2. The K6-2, 350's all had 10GB HDs, and I don't remember what HD was in the P-III, 600...

Excelsior, K6-2, 350

Andromeda, K6-2, 350

Intrepid, P-III, 600

One of the K6-2, 350's is now missing from my computer list...

Then I got a hold of my first Athlon system:

Excalibur, Athlon (original... Speed: Unknown/Don't remember)

Now, I only crunch on two machines:

Constellation, Athlon XP 1.79 GHz

Farragut, Athlon II

Constellation is on Ubuntu Linux 12.0.4, and Farragut is on Win 7 Home Premium x64.

(Probably more than you wanted to know...)

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
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@ Link,

You must be right - looking back in the pile of "spare parts" it was more likely a DX4-100 or a slot1 350 or 400... I found a slot1 800 as well with a triple fan cooler - Ha!

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Member of the 20 Year Club

Hmmmm....if memory serves, the cpu cache was a separate chip on the mobo, which I replaced. 233mmx. The board sqwaucked at much over stock.

Baby's first mobo...LOL.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I started with Classic SETI on January 8, 2001 and moved to BOINC when Classic SETI shut down with the following hardware:

• 200 Mhz Intel Pentium w/MMX
  
• 32 MB RAM
  
• 2 GB Hard Drive (for Operating System), 20 GB Hard Drive (for Programs & Data)
  
• Windows 95 B (OSR2)
  
• 56K Dial-up modem (Later upgraded to DSL when it became available)
  
• 3rd party program (don't recall name) that allowed me to download multiple SETI Classic workunits at a time.
  

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I ran the dual Coppermines. I wish I could recall what I had to do to get the cpus to each run the old seti classic work units. But what the heck, I couldn't even recall the motherboard manufacturer. <grin>.

My first computer to run SETI@home was an AMD K6-2 368MHz with 128MB RAM, running first Windows 98, then later ME, and then I think I squeezed XP on it.

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Brian.

I started with a Pentium 233 overclocked to 266 w0000t!!!!!
64 megs of ram, she was a screamer......
I read about SETI in Maximum PC magazine, and new I had to take part....

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