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spikey_richie
Senior Cruncher International Joined: Oct 28, 2005 Post Count: 392 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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David Autumns
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Hi Spikey
----------------------------------------We're not doing too badly I make the raw number crunching capability of the WCG around 150TFlops before you factor in the multiple work units per result btw wasn't Hector a friend of a frog called Kiki and a cat called Zaza or is that before your time  here's a pic   |
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spikey_richie
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Before my time Mr. A
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David Autumns
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Oh I feel old now.
----------------------------------------Born in 81! http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/hector.htm You missed the moon landings too  and the last time we won the world cup. I was 5 months old at the time I remember it well (not) I got my first computer in 81 and yet you have never known a world without them  It was a Sinclair ZX81 which had a 4Mhz 8 Bit Z80 processor and one whole K of Ram (8192 bits ) I saved up and got the 16K expansion pack. Which for those that remember these things, used to fall off after 8 minutes of loading Invader off your cassette tape (those things before MP3 players and CD's) leaving you with a white TV screen (used as a monitor - B+W) withOK. In the corner Ah those were the days. Us oldies will always remain amazed by the technology we now have at our disposal. Sorry rambling again Don't worry 15 years from now you'll be doing the same Dave |
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spikey_richie
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My first PC was an Amiga 500. We used to play Zool, it rocked
---------------------------------------- My mates dad works for IBM, and they used to have a 486 IBM laptop with an orange screen. It was ideal for playing prince of persia and monkey island! Yeah, in 15 years i'll be saying "I remember when PCs only had 4gb of RAM, and you had to use a think called a keyboard and a mouse to make it work." "And this terabyte broadband; I remember the good old days of 28k dialup!" |
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David Autumns
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I used to work in a Modem Lab and at the time we had got to 1200Baud (LOL) they claimed at the time there wasn't any point in it going any faster as you couldn't read it as it printed out  9600 baud could alledgedly cause whiplash of the neck as the text scrolled up the screen 2,000,000 baud to the house who would have believed it in 1984! |
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