Folding nostalgia- remember when...

[ihrsetrdr]

...Walaka7 was active. He influenced me to come to OCF and join Team 32.

...when OC-AMD(2CPU.com) was World's top folder.

...when QMD work units were THE shnizzle.

This is a "chain" thread, so post up your "remember whens". :)

[NV]

...when my P4 with HT was the folding MONSTER.

...when I first stopped looking for little green men to fold proteins.

[ChasR]

....when Wedo threw down the gaultlet to a then newbie folder named ChasR and the Cheese and Guinness war started.

[deadlysyn]

...when we all got a slew of Patty Melts for Christmas

...when EMIII was the folding monitor of choice

...when 1,000 PPD was huge

...when Wedo's One Click was the easiest way to borg a rig

[Audioaficionado]

...I remember when WU points were still single digit range and took forever on my Pentium Pro duallie.

[harlam357]

...when I was hardcore AMD fanboy. :D

[benbaked]

...when there were work units with names such as "tethered vesticle".

[Adak]

There was only one folding client.

When WU's averaged less than two points each. :(

When your connection with Stanford could blaze along at 19.2Kb/second.

When FAH was small stuff, and United Devices was the large folding DC project.

I got ****ed off when another folder cussed at me (a new folder here at the time), in a post, and nobody said a thing. I left T32 and folded for MaxPC for a year and a million points. Took me months to figure out why this had happened - the cussing folder had re-edited his posts, so no one but me (who was on-line at the time he posted them), ever saw them. Sno sent me a PM later, which eventually brought me back.

"Patty melt" WU's were the bane of our folding lives, for many months. Talk about low ppd! :(

QMD WU's came out, with lots of points - but only for Intel cpu's. I had just bought two AMD cpu's and mobo's! :mad:

Nikhsub1 had a folding farm that was churning out WU's like crazy. Even today, he has completed more WU's that anyone else on T32 - almost 200,000. :shock:

Zim01 visited us (among other teams), to fold a million points. He was just about gone when the monkeys from MaxPC, egged him on with strong trash talk, just prior to the start of the Chimp Challenge between our two teams. So he joined us, and we crushed MaxPC, winning the CC - Zim01 being a large part of that. Zim remains one of the best teammates I"ve had the pleasure of folding with. His sig line:

"He whose ranks are united in purpose, will be victorious."

Zim showed us what that meant, at almost a spiritual level.

When the SMP WU first came out, we thought we were visiting folding heaven for ppd. You can easily tell who has been folding mostly SMP WU's:

For example, I'm #50 in points on the team - but only number #271 for the number of WU's folded. Only Eggbert and Surferseth have less WU's, and more points. Surferseth is the SMP WU King on the team, as far as I can tell, in the ratio of SMP WU's to other WU's.

Teammate Wizard James had a stroke, although just a teenager. Several teammates worked together to get him a computer he could keep and use, at his bed, as he recovered.

Nahmus had some custom team 32 T shirts made up, with a pirate theme. Aarrrgh matey! :D

[the_cultie]

... when I didnt even know that folding existed.

[Jolly-Swagman]

I Remember when Adak first Introduced me to Folding@home with Team32 only a couple of years ago, when I had my Old P4 2.4 then was Upgreded to P4 2.8 with HT and those low points ,

Then Adak Graciouly donated to me my First C2D E6700 setup to Which the Smooth-n-Fold Project was born, and PDD began to Rise with SMP SU;s

Thank you Adak for Introducing me to FAH and Team32 , the Folding Bug does Take over, and both Team and Science Prosper from it!!

:)

[jonspd]

I remember when I didn't have problems loading up os's or FAH apps...

[ozzlo]

I remember when we were gonna give up a team rank without a fight...

Those days seem to be long behind us ;)

[chuckerants]

I remember Folding with a Dual Celeron setup.

[WarriorII]

Remember glasslicker talking smack to ghettocomp.
-even about dumbster diving!!!

remember..... Silver got me started.
remember..... Team Tee Shirts.
remember...... Build Borg repete.
remember...... thumb drive Folding.

Remember those we lost.


...when I was hardcore AMD fanboy. :D

+1 :D

But remember we also have many good times ahead too.

[Outback_Jon]

I remember Folding with a Dual Celeron setup.
Pffft! Noob! :p

I remember Folding with a K6/2-350. (Overclocked, of course, to 380)

[dfonda]

Sorry...I can't even remember last weekend....:shrug:

[Shelnutt2]

I remember when I had a dual lv 1.6ghz xeon setup, clocked at 2.4Ghz, with HT. Running 4x5.02 client, plus for a while I had a celeron 2.4ghz running along side it. It was fierce competition between me and warrior for a while. He had the upper hand, but sometimes my dual xeons would kick ass if I got 4 QMDs :D

[WarriorII]

:D

[harlam357]

Remember glasslicker talking smack to ghettocomp.
-even about dumbster diving!!!

Word... :beer:

[deadlysyn]

....when we all banded together and made a vow that pete_scout would never be gray again.

[Xtreme Barton]

awesome thread !! only memory i have is when i tried folding back in 04 for like a week .. i went to bed and my whole dream was of a protein folding .. not sure why i stopped after that :D

[WarriorII]

awesome thread !! only memory i have is when i tried folding back in 04 for like a week .. i went to bed and my whole dream was of a protein folding .. not sure why i stopped after that :D

:shrug:
you are a geek !

[Xtreme Barton]

:shrug:
you are a geek !
so i guess we have something in common

[WarriorII]

so i guess we have something in common

:thup:




I remember when Wicked Pixie 1st joined the Team - Wow!

and still Wow ! :salute:

:D

[Adak]

Speaking of Wicked Pixie, this was her post on the Rosetta Team forum (at that time). One of the funniest posts of the year - but also motivational.

The Chimp Challenge was in progress, and the MPC'ers (MaxPC), were ahead of us, at that time: (they didn't stay there).

Cover the right flank !

OCF DC Team [T32monkeys F@H Division] have been battling MPC Simian Army for more than 48 hrs now. They are now encroaching into OCF territory. They mounted a classic pincher maneuver but Generals Torin3 and ChasR 2nd and 3rd Silverback Heavy Armored Battalion was there to meet them, supported by Lt. Gen. HayesK Macaque brigade; Air support provided by Computekinc.us Marmoset Air Squadron.

As of yesterday, MPC Simian Army has jammed our radars and landed 4 regiments of para-simians along our main line of defenses. It was a brutal fight! It came down to paw-to-paw combat when bananas were running low. Col. Harlam was calling in Broken Arrow over the radio.

I was left in charge with the artillery battery. Heck, I don't even know to operate this thing. No one left me the manual. I am just a Corporal in the Linguistics Dept. I speak German with a slight hint of Bavarian. Someone named Capt. Miller just told me to come with him to look for some Private. I grabbed my typewriter but he flung it to the ground and gave me a pencil.

I don't know what happened to him. Anyway, I start lobbing shells at Col. H's position. I think I damaged some equipment, specifically Specialist Lofty's Heatsink. Why would anyone bring a heatsink on a monkey brawl in a trench is anyone's guess.

Today the MPC Simian Army are threatening to cut off our supply line. We will not let that happen.


Your F@H Brethren needs the Rosie Armada to establish a blockade along the North Shore while we regroup and prepare for a very hard fight. Col. Adak has already cleared all the MPC SA mobile artillery along the shores. He bravely infiltrated their positions wearing a MPC monkey suit and took them out one by one.

You are now cleared to send in the Rosie Marines.

Help us reinforce our right flank. Your F@H brethren will bleed with you when the Rosie Armada prepares to take on VTC and MSU.


After the CC, we did have a rousing ▓▓BAT OUTTA HELL!▓▓ and the Rosetta team was all smiles.

[WarriorII]

Wow...
She's a hoot for sure. :thup:
That is Fantastic !!!

:)

:attn:

[Adak]

I loved the reference to the movie "Saving Private Ryan", and this line had me rolling:

"Why would anyone bring a heatsink on a monkey brawl in a trench is anyone's guess."

[WonderingSoul]

-When I tried folding on my Opteron 170 because I thought it was a neat screensaver :eek:

-When I started GPU folding and was blown away by the PPD

-When nitteo posted up his 35+ 8800GT insane farm

[pik4chu]

When I had shelves full of P4 HTs running 24/7 cause they were the best bang for the buck xD ....oh how my energy bill made my wallet cry...

[Wicked_Pixie]

-When nitteo posted some whacky April Fools stuff. :p




LOL @ Adak and Warrior.

Having a war movie buff, who happens to <3 history and military channels, as a roomie finally paid off. What is so weird is that I hated those shows. Now that roomie is gone, I surprise myself watching those shows when I'm bored.

If I get inspired, I might do another for the next CC. Let's call it COD: Monkeys at War :chair:

[ihrsetrdr]

When I had shelves full of P4 HTs running 24/7 cause they were the best bang for the buck xD ....oh how my energy bill made my wallet cry...

Ah, "energy bills"- the scourge of the avid folder...

At one time I had over 12 machines in a 10x11 room until I finished my [computer]room addition, which is 3 times that size. IIRC, 8 or 9 were dual processor server boards(AMD-MP & modified Athlon-XPs) plus several single cpu rigs. The heat-load, the fan noise, the..."energy bills"! :rolleyes:

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[KonaKona]

How long ago was the pete scout thing? I don't think it was that far back....

[Adak]

Pete and Zim helped us win the Chimp Challenge folding race, in 2007, although Pete had pretty much relocated to Hardware Canucks Forum, by that time. We just didn't know what had happened to him until this last year.

If you mean the memorial folding team rush for Pete, that took place right after the last Chimp Challenge, in late May and June 09.

[benbaked]

I remember cool folding borg smilies: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/6641/borgsmiley.gif

[WarriorII]

BUMP. :D

[Norcalsteve]

Nice! I love Adaks play by play from Wicked Pixie! funny!

[LZ_Xray]

Me, I remember way back in the day last year when folding was a map repair procedure and protein was something you got from steak.

[TheNewbie]

I remeber when I first started folding for T32. Back when sno, myself, rpkole and a few others were tearing up the rosetta and seventeen or bust games under my old name jason23txlife. I still only have 1,300 ish points under that name maybe I will resurrect it just so I can make Adak's Biggest Climbers Folders list :comp: :D

[orion456]

.....when my pentium 3 would take a month to finish a WU


.....when I started folding after discovering how to OC my pentium 4


.....when the clients kept crashing and required constant baby sitting


.....when WEDO completed the first automatic installation script


.....when NIKHSUB1 was so high up in the standing I figured nobody would ever get higher


.....when WEDO said way back in '03, "Everybody starts with one WU, and everybody needs to figure out the finesse of setting up FAH. w00r to the n00b's, they are the back bone to our team."

[dfonda]

I remember when Pete was around....and Oldskool....and my Dad('09-94), and Mom('17-07), and my oldest and closest friend also a Pete(60-00)...and my Father in Law...and my Mother in law...I miss you all.:grouphug:

[Audioaficionado]

I remember folding in Windows 98SE with my single Pentium Pro processor. By the time I moved up to W2k and had two processors, the machine was too slow to bother with. Then I got an AMD Thoroughbred to over clock and fold with.

[Leonardo]

...I remember when WU points were still single digit range.... Yeah, before they hit the 'range' and were just just 1 point. I was so smug with my first 100 points.

[Tweaked!]

Wow, lots of memories...

I remember running my first dual proc computer just so I could run two clients at once. That was a MSI K7D Master w/ dual XP1600's (with conductive paint bridging the conductive pins to enable dual use and unlocking the multipliers).

I also had up to 28 motherboards all screwed to a peg board in my basement, all barebones with just a motherboard, proc, vid card and a small 2- 8 gb hdd, and up to three all wired to one power supply just for F@H. My friends all thought I was nuts, but I really enjoyed it all, and my basement was always warm (and loud)...

I also supplied quite a few friends with free pc's as long as they agreed to leave them running 24/7 with the client running in the background.

That was back when you could build a decent rig for under a buck 50. Nowadays you can't even buy a decent motherboard for that.
But I definitely remember when wu's were only worth a point each, and I remember feeling jipped whenever one of my clients would fetch a wu worth half a point.

I believe I originally started folding back in the pentium 2 days, and my first folding rig was a PII 266. :D

[ihrsetrdr]

Wow, lots of memories...

I remember running my first dual proc computer just so I could run two clients at once. That was a MSI K7D Master w/ dual XP1600's (with conductive paint bridging the conductive pins to enable dual use and unlocking the multipliers).

I also had up to 28 motherboards all screwed to a peg board in my basement, all barebones with just a motherboard, proc, vid card and a small 2- 8 gb hdd, and up to three all wired to one power supply just for F@H. My friends all thought I was nuts, but I really enjoyed it all, and my basement was always warm (and loud)...

:D

Yeah! gotta love those MSI K7D Master boards! At one time I had three MSI K7D Masters and three Asus A7M266-D boards, plus 3 or 4 single processor rigs...all in a 11 x 12 ft, room. :shock: Too many processors to remember, some were MPs, some were modded XPs.

[Audioaficionado]

Yeah... those were the years when sales of window defroster repair kits went through the roof :rofl:

I had my dual socket Iwill D800 running full bore and once on a particularly slow day for T32 I was on the top 20 producers list for a couple of updates. Too bad I didn't get that screen shot :(

[WarriorII]

I miss roasting hot dogs on my Pentium D 805 at 4GHz.

Oh, where oh where are Glasslicker & Ghettocomp, AlabamaCajin ?

Does anyone talk the talk or talk the smack anymore? :D

Hard to believe I use to poke Shellnutt & MrGuverment because I was ahead of them (just barely) :p

The Chimp Challenge was a time we all came together under one name and Folded our hearts out for a week or so. Full Blaze, Damn the Mrs ! we got points to lay down !!!

We have a good crew now, and have good times ahead. We have our own smack to talk
and monkey poo to be flung! Oh where are them Cheesey Poofs ?

Bring it on Spanky !

FIRST one I'm taking out is LowRyder !
and then up the ladder you shall fall.

Fold On ! :salute:

:comp:
WII

[muddocktor]

.....The latest and greatest client was V2? :eek:

.....WUs that were valued at .6 points/WU and took several hours to crunch on a Tbird at 1.4.

.....If you were doing 100 points/day you were a big time folding GOD!!!!! :D

[LoganG]

...the date was Apr 8th, 2012 and I folded my first WU.

...The CC setup wasn't coming along very well due to no one in charge

Okay so I haven't been around long enough to have real memories...

[Adak]

:rofl: ^^^^ :rofl:

[belorsch]

.....If you were doing 100 points/day you were a big time folding GOD!!!!! :D
This...
I remember when Lews was the Folding Powah on the team...
Keep in mind mudds qoute and then have a look at this thread
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55518

[Adak]

^^^^ Wow! 2002 no less!

[WarriorII]

QMD's put out 600 pts and you HAD to have an Intel cpu otherwise forget it.

[Adak]

And OF COURSE, I had two AMD's at that time. :(

[ihrsetrdr]

QMD's put out 600 pts and you HAD to have an Intel cpu otherwise forget it.

Hence my reluctant migration over to the "dark side". :p

[WarriorII]

Hence my reluctant migration over to the "dark side". :p

Once I switched from the Duron I did surgery on, I never went back.

:comp:

[pik4chu]

was digging through cleaning up images and saw this, so here is my contribution to nostalgia ;)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y261/pik4chu/Funnies/2xgromacs-1.jpg

[Adak]

^^^^ Yes! ^^^^ :p

[muddocktor]

Yep, good old EMIII. I remember we had an OCForums skin for it too, which was cool! :cool:

[Audioaficionado]

I loved EMIII. It was hard to move on, but it stopped being supported a long time ago.

[I.M.O.G.]

Great thread, good read... Thanks for the bumpage. I remember EMIII too. :)

[FoldingAddict]

I remember loading up 10 folders of Genome@Home (no deadlines) and crunching them on my Pentium 200 (no internet access) just for those extra 20 or 30 points per week!

~FA