mornin..........

Morning all.

I see a Vic20 reading the thread, welcome to the thread by the way and there's always room in the team for a new guy .

Takes me back a fair few years but I was of arch-rival computer, the ZX Spectrum! Never used a Vic20 or the C64 but did get an Amiga from Commodore a few years later.

Wonder how many months it would take one of those old machine to crunch even the smallest unit here, assuming that it was possible of course with those processors and small memory capacity.

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a Personal Milestone in yesterday's crunching:

TomNuttall 18 years RunTime
KrisUK 400,000 Points
GrumpyCat passes 110,000,000 Points for the UK team
KrisUK passes 400,000 Points for the UK team
KrisUK moves above 150,000 in the Points Rankings to #146,704
scol5913 passes 8,000 Results for the UK team
radagast_tb passes 100 Results for the UK team
anik.chaudhuri12 moves above 500000 in the Results Rankings to #497,946
GrumpyCat moves into the UK top 5 Results Rankings at #5

Today marks:
3 years crunching for the UK team for jonnieb-uk
10 years crunching for the UK team for bzsmith

UK team - Individual Ranking Movements

					        	
	        RunTime		        Points		        Results	
Tom.tamplint	         	   	up   1 to 	 84	   	   
threnobulax 	up   1 to 	330	up   1 to 	184	up   3 to 	218
The Candlers	         	   	         	   	up   1 to 	 48
sukhwinder s	up   1 to 	450	         	   	up   1 to 	435
scorpiusdiam	         	   	         	   	up   1 to 	167
scol5913    	         	      	up   1 to 	 58	   	   
radagast_tb 	up   2 to 	423	up   4 to 	317	up   4 to 	373
LagunaLoire 	up   9 to 	484	up   2 to 	412	up   5 to 	429
KrisUK      	up   6 to 	309	up   3 to 	175	up   5 to 	207
JoelSolo    	up  36 to 	503	up  53 to 	416	up  47 to 	482
GrumpyCat   	         	   	         	   	up   1 to 	  5
grangizmo   	         	   	up   1 to 	186	   	   
Grahame Fish	up   1 to 	253	up   1 to 	258	up   1 to 	261
Gilarm      	         	   	up   1 to 	 91	   	   
Edstar      	         	   	         	   	up   2 to 	128
Drus        	         	   	up   1 to 	 63	   	   
dcrobinson  	up   2 to 	129	         	   	up   1 to 	112
danielwejone	         	   	up   1 to 	235	   	   
cmcmanus    	         	   	         	   	up   2 to 	195
carlos.urald	         	   	up   1 to 	288	   	   
Candyguitar 	         	   	         	   	up   1 to 	117
buckethead19	up   1 to 	417	up   4 to 	339	up   5 to 	406
anik.chaudhu	up   8 to 	528	up  17 to 	431	up   5 to 	474
Thargor     	         	   	         	   	dn   1 to 	  6
sibroadway  	dn   1 to 	130	         	   	   	   
oz_mingus   	         	   	         	   	dn   1 to 	 49
l3xs        	         	   	         	   	dn   1 to 	118

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime, Points, Results

			                          	Hours		Points		      Results	
Yesterday's Production	2:272:08:49:49	  		24,056		3,569,292		4,726 	
Average per cd									
January 	          984.5	  		        23,616		3,535,285		4,702	
December	          929.1			        22,296		3,350,105		5,933	
November	          750.8			        18,000		2,700,814		4,949	

Average Daily Crunching Comparison

         	RunTime			Points		        	        Results		
         	03-Jan	02-Jan	  +/-	03-Jan	        02-Jan	        +/-	03-Jan	02-Jan	+/-
 7day Avg	986.61	961.79	 24.82	3,671,561	3,638,731	32,830	5,461	5,598	-137
14day Avg	964.18	961.19	  2.99	3,519,465	3,495,902	23,563	6,317	6,387	 -70
28day Avg	928.74	924.37	  4.37	3,340,737	3,320,915	19,822	5,881	5,914	 -33

Milestone Targets for the UK team

	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate	
RunTime	  1,750 years		      618,543	      20,207	    986.6	  20 days Jan-23-2015	
Points 	2,500,000,000 		2,167,548,679 	 332,451,321	3,671,561 	  91 days Apr-04-2015	
Results	    5,000,000		    4,226,128	     773,872	    5,461	 142 days May-25-2015	
							

No. Of Members Active Yesterday

       					        Day	        out of	 Tot.	
				Total      	82	        ,,  ,,	109	
				Group 1    	40	        ,,  ,,	 42	
				Group 2    	14	        ,,  ,,	 14	
				Group 3    	22	        ,,  ,,	 28	
				Group 4    	 5	        ,,  ,,	 12	
				InAct New	 0	        ,,  ,,	  0	
				InActive	 0	        ,,  ,,	 12	
				New/Restart	 1	        ,,  ,,	  1	

My first computer was a VIC20, loved programming it, moved to an Apple ][ E and really liked programming on it. Worked on Big Iron for a decade or so afterwards. Tried programming a PC and hated it immensely. Got me an Acorn Archimedes and was in programming heaven again, so easy to create good wimp programs with it.
Still hate programming in windows/dos, thank Linus for Linux/GNU, and for FreeBSD, my favourite.

A single core of my current PC is 486400 times more powerful than the VIC20, so if a unit takes an hour, the Vic20 will take 1216000 days, I think. Just woke up so my thinking may be out!

My first computer was a Vic10 then C64 ... C128,,,Amiga then onto PC. Played with Assembler language for C128. Seems so long ago now...