alt Hacker NewsImmediate nostalgia activated. I ran this on a Pentium machine (I think) at home, still living with my parents. Sometimes I yearn for the optimism and relative naïveté of those times.
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j79 • today at 8:24 PM
Same. Although with the curse of hindsight, I painfully recall choosing to run SETI@home instead of "mining" some weird digital currency called Bitcoin back in 2010. So, painful.
saganus • today at 7:41 PM
I was running my K6-2 and I was _convinced_ it was superior to equivalent Intel CPUs.
Spent hours watching the graph hoping to get triplets and some kind of confirmation that I just found ET.
Miss those days so much.
Pentium 3 in a crusty Compaq with a 5.25" bigfoot hard drive.
Those were the days