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DanBall
Follower of Athlon		 posted April 12, 2001 20:31     Click Here to See the Profile for DanBall     Edit/Delete Message
Look at this, saw this on someone's post at "The Register Free for All fourm"

Machine type: IBM PS/2 8580
Year: 1987
Price when new: $10,895.00 (8580-041)
Microprocessor: Intel 80386 "DX" processor
Clock speed: 16 Mhz
Coprocessor: i80387
Type of BUS: 16/32-bit Micro Channel (3x32-bit)
Total number of expansion slots: 8 (floor standing tower case)
Ports: PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, serial, parallel, VGA
Memory: 4MB DRAM (PS/2 8580 module) 80ns parity checked (2 sockets)
ROM: 128kb
Cache: 0kb
Weight: 23.6 Kg (52 lbs.)
Hard disk Capacity: 70MB,
Access time: 30ms,
Interface: ESDI
Display: VGA Display adapter 320x200x256 colours, 640x480x16 colours
Operating system: Windows '95
Time to boot from powerup to finish: 9 mins 34 seconds.

This guy signed up with SETI when it first started. His quote about the speed:

"...Joined SETI when it first started and downloaded my first unit; 137 days later it had finished and wanted an Internet connection, but my modem was playing up and refused to connect at full speed, kept insisting on half speed (so only 600 baud then)...Then the line kept dropping, so I eventually gave up. The machine was mothballed for a bit (about a year, I think)...Next time it was powered up it of course wanted to connect to SETI again, so I borrowed my brother's 4.8K modem for a REEAALLY fast connection, and found that they'd changed the program version in the meantime so it wouldn't let me in....So I downloaded the new version and bugger me if the program didn't scrap the only result I'd got so far and started processing it again from scratch!! I don't power it up much these days, so expect that first unit will be finished in about a year's time..."

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wl6538
Follower of Athlon		 posted April 13, 2001 19:34     Click Here to See the Profile for wl6538     Edit/Delete Message
holy smoke I thought my 486DX2 is bad enough at 400 hours per unit.

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Martin
Wish I had an Athlon		 posted April 14, 2001 06:37     Click Here to See the Profile for Martin     Edit/Delete Message
CPU, i have retired from seti@home since been register 24/07/99 : amd k6-2/233 (48hrs plus+ cliet 3.03 text), k6-2 400mhz, k6-2 450mhz, k6-2 500mhz.

[This message has been edited by Martin (edited April 15, 2001).]

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