Wow. 20y coming up... Impressive. Do you remember what machine it was you used first?
Cheers
Yes I do, it was a present from my dad and was an original IBM XT PC bought for $1200 with his discount while he worked for McDonnell Douglass. Previously I was using a Compaq luggable pc that had 64mb of ram and ran Windows 3.0 that I bought to decide which retirement plan I should go with when my work decided to switch to a 'new' type of retirement plan for it's employees.
Mine wasn't quite that ancient Mikey but when I started here 19 years and 4 days ago it was a PIII 500
and back then the memory our computers had is pretty much like our human one us old timers have
127.49 MiB = 0.133169152 GB and I updated the old Windows 98SE to XP Pro but it would take days
to do one CPU task here.
I've had ALOT of pc's over the years and it's been fun upgrading from one to the next one etc. My wife and I used that XP for several years until the kids got into grade school in the mid 80's when we were all using the XP and my wife was doing her stuff AND the kids were playing their games etc so i bought my wife and kids a Gateway pc until the kids crashed it too but mine STOPPED crashing once I was the only one using it again, as well as crunching of course. Eventually i picked upa couple of used pc's for the kids and when each one of us had our own pc they ALL stopped crashing...imagine that!! Yes my wifes Gateway was crunching but not 24/7 like mine was but only when she wasn't using it. I used to drive around everywhere and pick up pc's on the side of the road as well as get pc's given to me to recycle them for others. I took parts out of most of them but some I just wiped the drive, I wiped EVERY drive without even looking at it to protect me mostly, and then turned them into crunchers. Some people were getting rid of better pc's then I had so I was upgrading.
One time I even got a Win2k Server from the my sons school that the US State Dept gave them to learn on and play with in their IT class. It was a scsi drive Server and after I was done having fun with it I even offerred it to Seti when they had server problems but I wasn't shipping some 80+ pound box to them just for them to say no thanks so I gave it to a guy where I worked part-time because he wanted to work with Win2k so he could get promoted at work.
In short life has been fun and interesting and I still build pc's today, though not nearly as much as I used to do as I can buy pc's better than I have for under $500 as off-lease business pc's. Obviously they are not top of the line 4.?ghz or even 5ghz pc's but they crunch just fine and will run a long time. I do look forward to what's to come but am slowly losing ground to people whit the much faster pc's though my credit totals won't be caught for a VERY long time due to the Asic miners i have that ran Bitcoin Utopia where people actually DONATED bitcoins!! If only we knew what they would become that would have been a much different situation!!
Yeah Mikey you have many more than I will ever have and I have more than anyone where I live........but I have evidence here at home that you had LOTS of parts in your old stash.
Back in 1986 was the first time in a room full of computers at Ross Perot's local Electronic Data Services with a girlfriend who worked there and after that since I always have to know everything (well things I care about knowing) so after that people with the computers that didn't really do much wanted me to fix those Windows 95 pc's and all crying the BSOD and same with 98 and 98SE so I had to buy one with 98SE and a pitiful dialup
And got to be one of those original Microsoft testers with XP Pro about 2 years before it came out and I still have the original disc that I made and the OEM
Then one day I ran into Seti Classic by accident so I had to try that......and when the new LHC started in 2004 of course had to jump right in there and then Einstein a couple months later.
All of mine are so old that my three 8 cores are 8 years old and the others are older so that is why I got my Chanukah/Christmas/birthday present new pc like I have never had with 24 cores and that fancy (to me) GeForce RTX 3060.......of course here we have many that make that look like a GTX 550Ti that I also still have......in my stash
Yeah Mikey you have many more than I will ever have and I have more than anyone where I live........but I have evidence here at home that you had LOTS of parts in your old stash.
stash
I probably have 3 to 4 times, or more, as many DDR2 memory sticks as the ones I sent you, though the ones I have are all 1gb sticks. We had 1600 pc's where I worked part-time as the first call IT person for the Agency where I worked and they took out 2 256mb sticks and put in 2 1gb memory sticks in all 1600 pc's, at a cost of $60K, to make them MUCH faster. When it came time to return the pc's to the State they wanted them back with the 256mb memory sticks in them and since the Agency had brand new pc's that couldn't use the 1gb sticks I got them ALL for the 'price' of me taking out the 1gb sticks and putting the 256mb sticks back in again. I worked in a County in Virginia that covered 400 square miles and had 5 high rises of Agency offices and dozens of smaller places too. Every single pc got replaced on a 4 year rotational basis, though it was staggered so only about 1/4 of them got done every year. We also had people working for the Agency who got local county purchased pc's and those pc's got replaced on a 3 year rotational basis, again staggered so not all were replaced in one year. PC replacement took over 2 months to happen and resulted in me getting sooooo much comp-time that I would go in 1 day a week and still get paid for 40 hours for over 2 months afterwards. I normally worked 5 days every 2 weeks 8 hours per day but during pc replacement I would work 10 to 12 hours days 5 days a week. It was fun, it was interesting and it was sometimes so labor intensive that I would go thru 3 shirts in a day because I sweated thru them!!.
YOW that explains why you had so many extras in your stash.
A few years ago I hauled some things to the local Goodwill store since they made money sending all the stuff off to get whatever was worth money in them
I sent off my original CRT monitor that I had in the beginning and at the old Seti Classic and I had a never used scanner and printer so I gave them that and they could have resold them but I think they just had them recycled.
Oh and I gave them my original pc with that goofy PIII 500 with almost no ram BUT the HD I saved and it was running in my one I still used here and at Cern until last year (mainly Sixtrack) and I put that original XP Pro HD in one of my old AMD 3-core that I need to now replace because soon after I updated it to Win 7 last month it started running with more ram and fresh OS and then it wouldn't reboot and started telling me it didn't match the CPU or MB or something..never had that happen before so I will try another clean cheap HD and try ton install the Win 7 again since that is the newest disc I have (got all the Win 10's in that free thing)
The twin to that pc is still running with the Win 10 since I did update that one and it is the one that still runs and I put that new free RX 570 that local guy had in his stash and didn't want it for some reason.....glad I got that one running.
If I get that old beast running again I am going to see if I can get that one 980 that stopped running to work again.
Good thing I wasn't around computers back in the 80's because I was busy buying expensive stereo components
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walton748 wrote: Wow. 20y
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Yes I do, it was a present from my dad and was an original IBM XT PC bought for $1200 with his discount while he worked for McDonnell Douglass. Previously I was using a Compaq luggable pc that had 64mb of ram and ran Windows 3.0 that I bought to decide which retirement plan I should go with when my work decided to switch to a 'new' type of retirement plan for it's employees.
This is the Compaq Luggable I had.
Mine wasn't quite that
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Mine wasn't quite that ancient Mikey but when I started here 19 years and 4 days ago it was a PIII 500
and back then the memory our computers had is pretty much like our human one us old timers have
127.49 MiB = 0.133169152 GB and I updated the old Windows 98SE to XP Pro but it would take days
to do one CPU task here.
MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
)
I've had ALOT of pc's over the years and it's been fun upgrading from one to the next one etc. My wife and I used that XP for several years until the kids got into grade school in the mid 80's when we were all using the XP and my wife was doing her stuff AND the kids were playing their games etc so i bought my wife and kids a Gateway pc until the kids crashed it too but mine STOPPED crashing once I was the only one using it again, as well as crunching of course. Eventually i picked upa couple of used pc's for the kids and when each one of us had our own pc they ALL stopped crashing...imagine that!! Yes my wifes Gateway was crunching but not 24/7 like mine was but only when she wasn't using it. I used to drive around everywhere and pick up pc's on the side of the road as well as get pc's given to me to recycle them for others. I took parts out of most of them but some I just wiped the drive, I wiped EVERY drive without even looking at it to protect me mostly, and then turned them into crunchers. Some people were getting rid of better pc's then I had so I was upgrading.
One time I even got a Win2k Server from the my sons school that the US State Dept gave them to learn on and play with in their IT class. It was a scsi drive Server and after I was done having fun with it I even offerred it to Seti when they had server problems but I wasn't shipping some 80+ pound box to them just for them to say no thanks so I gave it to a guy where I worked part-time because he wanted to work with Win2k so he could get promoted at work.
In short life has been fun and interesting and I still build pc's today, though not nearly as much as I used to do as I can buy pc's better than I have for under $500 as off-lease business pc's. Obviously they are not top of the line 4.?ghz or even 5ghz pc's but they crunch just fine and will run a long time. I do look forward to what's to come but am slowly losing ground to people whit the much faster pc's though my credit totals won't be caught for a VERY long time due to the Asic miners i have that ran Bitcoin Utopia where people actually DONATED bitcoins!! If only we knew what they would become that would have been a much different situation!!
Yeah Mikey you have many more
)
Yeah Mikey you have many more than I will ever have and I have more than anyone where I live........but I have evidence here at home that you had LOTS of parts in your old stash.
Back in 1986 was the first time in a room full of computers at Ross Perot's local Electronic Data Services with a girlfriend who worked there and after that since I always have to know everything (well things I care about knowing) so after that people with the computers that didn't really do much wanted me to fix those Windows 95 pc's and all crying the BSOD and same with 98 and 98SE so I had to buy one with 98SE and a pitiful dialup
And got to be one of those original Microsoft testers with XP Pro about 2 years before it came out and I still have the original disc that I made and the OEM
Then one day I ran into Seti Classic by accident so I had to try that......and when the new LHC started in 2004 of course had to jump right in there and then Einstein a couple months later.
All of mine are so old that my three 8 cores are 8 years old and the others are older so that is why I got my Chanukah/Christmas/birthday present new pc like I have never had with 24 cores and that fancy (to me) GeForce RTX 3060.......of course here we have many that make that look like a GTX 550Ti that I also still have......in my stash
MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
)
I probably have 3 to 4 times, or more, as many DDR2 memory sticks as the ones I sent you, though the ones I have are all 1gb sticks. We had 1600 pc's where I worked part-time as the first call IT person for the Agency where I worked and they took out 2 256mb sticks and put in 2 1gb memory sticks in all 1600 pc's, at a cost of $60K, to make them MUCH faster. When it came time to return the pc's to the State they wanted them back with the 256mb memory sticks in them and since the Agency had brand new pc's that couldn't use the 1gb sticks I got them ALL for the 'price' of me taking out the 1gb sticks and putting the 256mb sticks back in again. I worked in a County in Virginia that covered 400 square miles and had 5 high rises of Agency offices and dozens of smaller places too. Every single pc got replaced on a 4 year rotational basis, though it was staggered so only about 1/4 of them got done every year. We also had people working for the Agency who got local county purchased pc's and those pc's got replaced on a 3 year rotational basis, again staggered so not all were replaced in one year. PC replacement took over 2 months to happen and resulted in me getting sooooo much comp-time that I would go in 1 day a week and still get paid for 40 hours for over 2 months afterwards. I normally worked 5 days every 2 weeks 8 hours per day but during pc replacement I would work 10 to 12 hours days 5 days a week. It was fun, it was interesting and it was sometimes so labor intensive that I would go thru 3 shirts in a day because I sweated thru them!!.
YOW that explains why you had
)
YOW that explains why you had so many extras in your stash.
A few years ago I hauled some things to the local Goodwill store since they made money sending all the stuff off to get whatever was worth money in them
I sent off my original CRT monitor that I had in the beginning and at the old Seti Classic and I had a never used scanner and printer so I gave them that and they could have resold them but I think they just had them recycled.
Oh and I gave them my original pc with that goofy PIII 500 with almost no ram BUT the HD I saved and it was running in my one I still used here and at Cern until last year (mainly Sixtrack) and I put that original XP Pro HD in one of my old AMD 3-core that I need to now replace because soon after I updated it to Win 7 last month it started running with more ram and fresh OS and then it wouldn't reboot and started telling me it didn't match the CPU or MB or something..never had that happen before so I will try another clean cheap HD and try ton install the Win 7 again since that is the newest disc I have (got all the Win 10's in that free thing)
The twin to that pc is still running with the Win 10 since I did update that one and it is the one that still runs and I put that new free RX 570 that local guy had in his stash and didn't want it for some reason.....glad I got that one running.
If I get that old beast running again I am going to see if I can get that one 980 that stopped running to work again.
Good thing I wasn't around computers back in the 80's because I was busy buying expensive stereo components
Got to 150M on Einstein@home,
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Got to 150M on Einstein@home, making it the most credited BOINC project I have participated. Still looking forward to have some badges here...
Also, recently got 550M on BOINC credits... ????
non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU
KLiK wrote: Got to 150M on
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WOO HOO!!! That's some major milestones you have reached there congratulations!!!
Congratulations, Klik!
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Congratulations, Klik!