Computer technology marches on, and soon the productive life of classic
SETI@Home will end. By the time that happens, I probably will have switched
over to BOINC.

    But does the classic version have to vanish completely?

    I've lately had the thought that it would be fun to keep the screen saver
version of classic SaH alive -- purely for demonstration purposes, of course.
It does look impressive on a computer screen. Also it would still be a way of
comparing the performance of different systems.

    My thinking is that the first step is to preserve a supply of work units
(5 to 10 should be enough). I've already started doing that.

    Next, I believe that to run the program, all I need to do is delete any
output file in the SaH directory and drop a WU into it. I can fire up SaH and
set it not to "phone home" and just let it light up the screen with
scientific eye candy.

    Have I missed anything that will prevent this from working? I don't have
a spare machine on which to experiment at the moment.

Chris