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Pentium 3 in a crusty Compaq with a 5.25" bigfoot hard drive.

Those were the days

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I still have both the screensaver and the moment that I realized that disabling the screensaver allowed processing to happen meaningfully quicker burned into my mind.
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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.

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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.
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