I have 12 years today according to the web site, but I know that somewhere in there I "lost" my first account completely, so I'm guessing that I'm at least real close to 15 years now. I came here straight from RC5, anyway.

Can't claim to have been _productive_ during much of that 15 years though! A whole lot of activity up front (see my "number of posts" figure, compared to my abysmal "number of credits"!) then a long dry spell. But I'm hopefully back now! :-)

I may be getting close! Hopefully another 15 years and then another

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I may be getting close! Hopefully another 15 years and then another

You may want to search for the 13 Year Club/Anniversary thread and post there, too.

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Plus SETI Classic = 21,082 WUs

Another year gone by.

xm, i was there from 1999. readed by that time in russian magazine "hacker" about seti project.
start crunching in DOS 6.22 and pentium 166 MMX. downloading and uploading workunits via frient, who have 14400 modem and phone line. gathered workunits around in 3.5" 1.44 mb diskette :D
about 2000 or 2001 start investigating linux, and switch crunching tasks to it - continue run setiathome on slackware ;)

in a years i time from time get off the game for no long periods, but always return....
now put seti on my used macbook 13" pro....

PS not getting any t-shirts for my participation...:D

SETI@home classic CPU time 51,884 hours

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Hello,
it is good to remember how it all started. Today I can not imagine that a computer does not work meaningful. Before the Internet, I was a Fido-node and all workstations searching the next wow signal. It is incredible that my current PC has topped all the years of work in a 2 weeks. In this sense. Happy Crunching - Klaus

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Oh yes, Fido...it was a interesting times, and a community. i was then 2:5100/16.2 ( a point)
all that good echo-conferences ( su.hardware, su.anekdots) and so on....and a bulletin board systems...

ekh...

and before that i was sit on spectrum-compatible class.
my last machine before going to my first PC in 1994 was ZS Scorpion 256 - AY 3 channel sound, 5.25" 720kb floppy drive, and a 256 Kb RAM. can emulate spectrum 48k and 128k.
demoscenes and so on...beautiful times ;)
but then i sell it ( regret now), and buy my first pc by parts - 286 motherboard with 12 mhz cpu and 8 mhz mathematic (89287) on it, 1 Mb RAM in SIPP modules, 42 Mb seagate HDD, and a 14" monitor, who often brokes - problem with high voltage transformator on it... ;)

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Hello Johny,
yes, Fido was a familie! I have had the node 2:241/250 (analog) - and /251 (2xISDN) in Cuxhaven/Germany called "ncn" northcup-network. The Fido-Hardware was a OS/2 Machine that handled all the fido-stuff incl. 2 Lines - ftp-server - planets-server (!) - AMD K6-III with 128 MB RAM and 2 SCSI-HDs with 100 MB... and the rubber-keyboard from my spectrum 48K was claimed hard to tap all these listings :-). Fine, that one again see you in times :-) Gruss, Klaus

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"Never thought I'd live to see a million"
I know I started in the very late 1990s
but that is lost like others have posted.
Anyway, Hi There!

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Made it. A slight mishap in suffering a double stroke preventing me in noticing it. Looking forward to the next 15 :-)

Hello Johny,
yes, Fido was a familie! I have had the node 2:241/250 (analog) - and /251 (2xISDN) in Cuxhaven/Germany called "ncn" northcup-network. The Fido-Hardware was a OS/2 Machine that handled all the fido-stuff incl. 2 Lines - ftp-server - planets-server (!) - AMD K6-III with 128 MB RAM and 2 SCSI-HDs with 100 MB... and the rubber-keyboard from my spectrum 48K was claimed hard to tap all these listings :-). Fine, that one again see you in times :-) Gruss, Klaus

looks by very cool hardware for that times. i too take a bit to investigating os/2 warp connect, but not going to be very impressed with it. about 2001 begin to investigate linux, and there i be impressed - thing like CLI there, mailserver on sendmail, and so on. as i early started use Linux mandriva & slackware as a my home server, and in about 2006 even switched fully on linux - from that time i start windows only ocassionly, and be happy with that :) very terrible piece of shit is that ms products, and do further, then worse it going.
MS DOS not bad at all...;)

in a general talks like this is indicator, as we are a old farts now ;) young ones not like remember past - he live by today, and looks to tomorrow ;)

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15 yrs for me!

16 years ago today I joined this excellent research. Cheers!

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16 years ago today I joined this excellent research. Cheers!

You may also want to post your longevity mark in the 16 year club thread (you may need to search for it) and quite a number of people will soon be eligible for the 17 year club, although I don't think that there is a thread for that one yet.

EDIT: OK I found the 16 year thread:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=77483#1689493

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Plus SETI Classic = 21,082 WUs

15 years ago yesterday (I was away). Great group of people here.

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SETI@home classic workunits 4,019
SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours

16 years ago today I joined this excellent research. Cheers!

You may also want to post your longevity mark in the 16 year club thread (you may need to search for it) and quite a number of people will soon be eligible for the 17 year club, although I don't think that there is a thread for that one yet.

EDIT: OK I found the 16 year thread:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=77483#1689493

Oh yea, been a 17 year club around for a few months now. :-)

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It'll be 15 years for me in 2017 :D

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I thought I would bring this up since no one else has yet.

Yes, I remember starting out on the Seti Screen Saver under Windows 95/98 all those years ago.

Apparently, I am up to 35,686,123 Total Credits.

It seems like only "yesterday" I was running single core computers :)

Tom

2003, what a time, the net was still young, computers were slow, and people were people.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Been doing this for ~15 years and all I got was this t-shirt.

So did that T-shirt project really fly? Can I order one (belatedly)?

:)

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).