The DECstation is my Eggdrop bot server. I don't care if it'd only put out one result a week on SETI.. it's something else to do..

As far as the rest of the older hardware I run, I do it for nostalgia, and for "Geek Points"..

I have quite the collection of working "antique" computer hardware, and I run it because I want to run it. It's going to run regardless of whether SETI is on it.

As for my hardware, I have the following running SETI:

Athlon XP 2600+ clocked to 3300, 1 Gig RAM
Athlon XP 2600+ clocked to 3000, 1/2 Gig RAM
Sempron 2400 1/2 Gig ram
Athlon 1G, 256M RAM
Duron 950, 256M RAM
Duron 750, 256M RAM
Sun Ultra2/Creator3D, (2) 167Mhz Ultra 1 processors, 1 Gig RAM (Processor upgrade coming)

The following aren't running SETI yet, some because I haven't gotten to setting them up yet, others because there's no clients for them.

Alpha 21164 at 500 Mhz, 256M RAM, (needs powersupply)
(2) Sun Ultra5's with 300 Mhz UltraII processors. 128M RAM each.
SparcStation 2, 80Mhz Weitek proc upgrade, 128M RAM.
DECstation 5000/200, 96 M RAM

The U5's need more RAM, the SS2 does a WU in about a week, or at least it did under NetBSD 1.5.3 when I was running it before. I'm assuming the DECstation would take close to two weeks to do one, but like I said.. I just want to use the unused processor cycles on machines that I'm already running anyway, and that are going to run regardless of whether there's a SETI client on them are not.

-SSB

f/f george wrote:

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 17:04:16 GMT, sideband <AINO8SPAMW@cac.net> wrote:

Back in the day, if you needed a client for the "old" system (which works great, IMHO) and you asked here, someone on the project would get it done, assuming they had access to the hardware on which to do the compile. (Guess that's why I never found a client for my DECstation 5000/200.) I suppose those on the SETI project are busy, too, so that's understandable, now, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm not going to be able to go full-speed ahead like I have been for the last 5+ years.... Bits of my farm will fall off due to lack of support.. and that's just a sad thing.

-SSB

Not necessarily....if the old hardware is just too slow you would be
better served by junking it and spending the money and electricty on a
more up to date model. There IS a breakover point and each person has
to find there own but....if you do one unit in 1 day on the old
DECstation what's the point? You can get a new machine for under
$100US that will do 2 or 3 a day and last for another 5 or 10 years.
You can but a nice refurbished AMD 2800+ for about $300US that will do
1 unit in about 2 1/2 HOURS!
These prices are no monitor or printer, they are full units, hard
drive, cd, sometimes a floppy drive, built in video card, memory, a
full box with a keyboard and a mouse.