Ahh! that was a nice trip down memory lane. How things have evolved, the history of the team is fascinating stuff. I remember running mighty Pentium 100 with 32 MB RAM and it blitzed my office machine a 486 with 8MB RAM in Seti@Home Classic.

I discovered DC'ing when I was surfing the net looking for information about Fractals - Julia sets and Mandelbrot sets and so on. Somehow I came upon Seti Classic and ran it as a screensaver. Next I ran Parabon, Distributed Net and Prime 95. I put Lisa's "Super 350" Pentium II to work on Prime 95 and about a year later it completed a task. Woot!

I tried Dcypher Net and one day was suffering from the flu really bad and feeling miserable thought I'd use Altavista to look up info on Influenza. I found Popular Power which was a DC project requiring an always on connection but it was searching for a cure for influenza.

After this I tried many other projects - Folderol, Folding @ Home, Genome @ Home, Golem@Home (sounds like Tolkien hey!), Fight AIDS @ Home and SaferMarkets from Entropia. I stumbled across Ubero and as I had a Biochemistry major at Uni thought it was pretty interesting. Having run it for a little while I posed an open question on their forum asking which team I should join and why.

Bruce and shnal replied, among others - Free-DC was one too - but I had just bought my first AMD powered pc. It was my Athlon XP2000+ and it tore through Ubero tasks compared to my then workhorse PIII-733. AMD Users seemed like a good choice so I joined them. I haven't felt the need to change teams since.