Thinkpad

[Dandasarge]

Can anyone tell me if the "shock sensor" in the thinkpads built onto the motherboards or are they there own part?

[Maxwell]

I may be wrong, but I always thought they were built into the hard drive...

[Dandasarge]

They take normal hard drives

[Mumps]

Can anyone tell me if the "shock sensor" in the thinkpads built onto the motherboards or are they there own part?

Well, the ones I have are *years* old. But everything, back when IBM produced them, was integrated. But then, back then, they also used standard IDE hard-drives, just with a custom connector. Nowadays, I'll presume they use standard SATA drives. But the sensor is most likely still integrated.

[DrBob]

On the T41 the APS chip is on the system board, no separate FRU for the accelerometer.
I believe this is the case with all Thinkpads but only have documentation for the T41 handy.

[Dandasarge]

So in theory you could get a mid-range think pad motherboard(other required parts) and get on the quake-grid thing?

[Fire$torm]

So in theory you could get a mid-range think pad motherboard(other required parts) and get on the quake-grid thing?

Roger that. I have a VERY old IBM 486 Thinkpad so I wonder.........

[Dandasarge]

Roger that. I have a VERY old IBM 486 Thinkpad so I wonder.........

Its only after like 2005. I dont think that one will work for ya

[Slicker]

ThinkPad T42's also work. Uses about 2 seconds of CPU time in 24 hours, so it is like getting free credit.

[Fire$torm]

Its only after like 2005. I dont think that one will work for ya

Oh well. Easy come, easy go...

[Dandasarge]

because the processors aren’t going to do much more then 100-200 I don’t see any decent t40 series but you can get one more CPU at a pretty cheep price. Under 50 bucks on ebay for the MB/ PS with all the parts you need would be great for the numbers game!

Basically just screw it to a board put a HD on it plug it up and make a crunching wall heater.

Anyone know if any of them came with any Video Card that would crunch?

Ever feel like you might be spilling to much out onto a web form?

[Slicker]

because the processors aren’t going to do much more then 100-200
My T42 running Win7 32-bit on PG's PPS it gets 1434 credits per day. While that's no comparison to the 35K or more my i7 950 processor can get on PG's PPS, it still isn't too shabby. I'd never go out and buy a T42 right now, but if you have one laying around, an extra thousand credits and the ability to crunch QCN isn't all bad.

[Fire$torm]

because the processors aren’t going to do much more then 100-200 I don’t see any decent t40 series but you can get one more CPU at a pretty cheep price. Under 50 bucks on ebay for the MB/ PS with all the parts you need would be great for the numbers game!

Basically just screw it to a board put a HD on it plug it up and make a crunching wall heater....
You mean like this ---> Post #15 (http://setiusa.free-dc.org/vbforum/showthread.php?259-The-Project&p=2624&viewfull=1#post2624)

[Fire$torm]

My T42 running Win7 32-bit on PG's PPS it gets 1434 credits per day. While that's no comparison to the 35K or more my i7 950 processor can get on PG's PPS, it still isn't too shabby. I'd never go out and buy a T42 right now, but if you have one laying around, an extra thousand credits and the ability to crunch QCN isn't all bad.
LLR or Sieve?

[Dandasarge]

You mean like this ---> Post #15 (http://setiusa.free-dc.org/vbforum/showthread.php?259-The-Project&p=2624&viewfull=1#post2624)

Yes just like that, a couple years ago I had one hanging above every plug that had 18" of free space above it. It was cool when I was single. Woman always thought that it was weird. When they moved in the computers went into a little rack thing. The currant hasn’t ever put anything on the walls; maybe I should reclaim them :) I dubbed them “Functional Art”. Always great for conversations on how a computer motherboard on the wall is really fighting cancers/ aids exc.

[Slicker]

LLR or Sieve?

Proth Prime Search (Sieve)
The Winter Solstice Challenge project (http://www.primegrid.com/challenge/challenge.php)