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SETI News Send message Joined: 16 Dec 09 Posts: 387 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Help SETI@home and own a piece of SETI@home history! Check out these auctions of SETI@home museum pieces |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21279 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
I wish I could but no shipping is a large problem. I'm sure there are people that would be willing to pay for shipping costs. |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
May not ship to Netherlands.. too bad then. Own a piece of Seti history, but only if you live in the USA. And have the money. :) More wondering what's inside these servers. All have the same photos of dust in strategic places, but no explanation on what's actually inside them. So either it's an expensive paper weight, or it'll just gather more dust. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
May not ship to Netherlands.. too bad then. Own a piece of Seti history, but only if you live in the USA. And have the money. :) May not ship to UK either! If you click on the pic it takes you to another page click where there is a generic set of pics, but is does show the insides. |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
I guess since I already ship Anni Shirts around the world, I could sort out the shipping problem too on those bits. Just glad the Uni and Seti got the ownership bit sorted. Thank You Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
gs Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 45 Credit: 5,412,660 RAC: 8 |
No items left in the auction anyway. All gone fast. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
No items left in the auction anyway. All gone fast. Not sure where you are looking but I still see 5 days left to go. Plus a new addition Agilent 16555A timing module Uli, I really don't think you would want to get into shipping servers around the world!! |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Might just be worth it just to get a tour of the facility if nothing else, lol. Not sure what I would do with a server though...hmm. |
John Twohy Send message Joined: 21 Dec 07 Posts: 9 Credit: 2,058,932 RAC: 0 |
Wow they are old I have crunched work off these server. 486 chipped machines long ago. and up graded as faster chips come out had to go with AMD cheaper than Intel. now I run it at 5 MHz. Oops I guess you know how old I'm am. I had lost a lot of points when plate forms where changed. NameAMD FX-9590 Eight-Core Processor Threading 1 CPU - 8 Cores - 8 Threads Frequency 5016.66 MHz (25 * 200.67 MHz) Architecture Vishera (32 nm) CPUID / Stepping F.2.0 / 15.2 (OR-C0) CPU Extensions MMX, SSE, x86-64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, XOP, FMA3, FMA4 Caches L1 : 128 KB / L2 : 8192 KB / L3 : 8192 KB Max. TDP 219 Watts Voltage 1.452 Volts Type Stock |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Wow! I had thought these were long gone. I wonder if one of the computing museums would be interested in having these for display. Perhaps they would be able to collect them if someone wanted to bid on them & then donate them to such a museum. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Wow! I had thought these were long gone. Well I know that this lot would take them The National Museum of Computing But that's a bit far away, so how about here. Computer History Museum California |
Aurora Borealis Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 3075 Credit: 5,631,463 RAC: 0 |
These computers are rather ordinary and don't have any historical value right now. Mind you should we ever decipher a signal from ET, their 'value' would jump through the roof. |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
These computers are rather ordinary and don't have any historical value right now. Mind you should we ever decipher a signal from ET, their 'value' would jump through the roof. Not really as they would not necessarily be the servers that were involved. Were these not the "original SETI@Home Classic servers, if so they are historical as being part of the first distributed computer project that led to BOINC. I know when I visited The National Computer Center at Bletchely they were keen to get hold of any and all old computers especially if they had a known history. |
TheClap Send message Joined: 18 Oct 99 Posts: 3 Credit: 35,782,014 RAC: 127 |
Sun 450's - the ultimate server chassis for a beer fridge! I sincerely hope they're on wheels... |
Godpiou Send message Joined: 6 Jan 01 Posts: 1 Credit: 3,016,692 RAC: 0 |
I don't know if it's because I don't live in USA (I'm in Canada...) but I don't see ANY items. The Ebay page tells me that there are 0 items for sale. 8-( http://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/2774964/sig.png |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
I guess since I already ship Anni Shirts around the world, I could sort out the shipping problem too on those bits. Thank you Bernie for setting me straight. At 205lb, shipping cost would be outrages. Stil. you never know, what a Setizen can do.! Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
I don't know if it's because I don't live in USA (I'm in Canada...) but I don't see ANY items. The Ebay page tells me that there are 0 items for sale. Well I am in the UK and see the page. Are you using this Auction of SETI@Home museum pieces Sun 450's - the ultimate server chassis for a beer fridge! I sincerely hope they're on wheels... See my pic a few post back. |
Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 |
If you buy 2 of them, you could get a glas top made engraved with a world for a top and make a really cool coffe table :D Actually shipping isn't that bad to go over seas. there are lots of companys that ship random things, mostly in palet crates. Get it on a pallet, truck is to the boat, and off you go. And it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a plane. Just don't expect it over night. |
Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 |
BTW, who generates the times on the plts at http://setistats.haveland.com/index.html ? Their times are 1 hour ahead. And is that one of the better sites to use for watching Neil's great work progress come alive? |
bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 7264 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 3 |
Apparently the picture is not clickable. Is that black on the white cables because of tear and wear? Except for that, this looks like a great machine. It probably needs either the img or url tag or attribute, or possibly both, but testing it out with the Preview button only (I leave the rest for you), I noticed that when using both url and img, the left "[" became deleted when making one line of it (it ends up on two lines in the posting box, even when compressed). If using both url and img, I guess url should come first, next img. For now I do not know what is the correct syntax here. BTW: Some nice pictures there in the photoalbum on Photobucket. Only had a quick glance by now. Goes to show that the UK is not only cities and villages but nature as well. |
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