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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: runequester on July 12, 2010, 05:59:16 AM
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Whats the longest you've ever had an amiga be turned on in one sitting?
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Oh, I have a strong contender.... and a sad story as well.
As many know, BBS's were big years ago, before the Internet took off.... Well, after getting a 14.4 modem for my miggy, I found at least 5 full-time Amiga supporting BBS's in Milwaukee alone. One of them was called PSA.... (Politics and Social Awareness, IIRC) it was run by then-Milwaukee County Supervisor Dorothy K. Dean.
In maybe 2006 or so, while chatting with her on the BBS, she said that the BBS (and the A2000 it ran on) had been on 24/7 for the last 8 years !! (Not sure if she had a UPS, I imagine so) I know her late husband set up an AREXX script, in WBStartup, to automatically run the BBS program if power ever failed. Sadly, when her husband (and tech. support) passed away, PSA went offline for good... :(
Personally, I only had my A1200 on constantly for about 12 days.... for a Lightwave .ANIM .... Psst, anyone have a spare Raptor laying around... :)
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I remember I used to work in the nineties and early 2000 on local TV station, they had an Amiga VideoToaster system with a serial link to an A3000 that was in a tower using Scala InfoChannel. This setup was used to broadcast the channel logo/bug during daily transmissions and was the responsible for emitting the now not so common "Sorry, we are experiencing technical difficulties" and the pattern test with the channel name before and after transmissions.
At that time I used to talk quite a lot with the operator of that system and he showed me he had some kind of Amiga app running in the background that displayed, last time we met, that the uptime of the machine was seven years and something, running 24/7/365
I was truly amazed by it, I never thought any computer could achieve something like that!
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Whats the longest you've ever had an amiga be turned on in one sitting?
Something like 3 years. I never switch it off unless I have to.
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My bbs was up from 88-97 24/7 on various models and has been running non stop again 08-present.
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My A1200 had an uptime of around 3 months. Memory fragmentation eventually kills any long uptime.
I run a BBS. Or rather, I neglect a BBS. Its history is:
1995-2004 A1200. Running near continuously, only down for upgrades.
2004-2010 A4000. Continuously.
2010- WinUAE [1]. As an attempt to reduce power usage, noise and due to the gradual failure of the A4000. The image is a near identical 1:1 copy of the A4000, WinUAE's compatibility is pretty damn good.
[1] (WinUAE on WinXP on VMWare on Linux, accessed via Mac)
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don27dog: Don't suppose your BBS is Telnet'able?
Maybe you could give the number? PM if you prefer....
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I have had an Amiga with a 12bps modem connected for 2 weeks, thats about the longest I have had an Amiga on without restart ever. The story is quite funny tho, I went on vacation with my familly for 2 weeks and forgot to turn my Amiga off, the funny thing is that I dident notice untill I got home, back then it was quite expensive to be connected and when I realized that I had been connected for the past 2 weeks I got panic and called my ISP and they saw I had no activity so they did not charge me for it :) Then I was happy :)
But when I used Amiga alot back then it was online for a minimum of 10-12 hours a day for many years :)
If I remember right I think renderings in Pow Raw on Amiga back then took ages!
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Back in the day, I ran a public access BBS on my A2000 030/40. Started with a 2400 baud modem and then 14.4... followed by 56k. Other than the occasional power outage, the machine was on 24 x 7 for about 7 years. I used that same machine for my own use as well so it was rebooted once in a while, maybe once every 3 or 4 months but it was never shut off.
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Holy cow guys! And I thought 14 hours was bad :) lol
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Local cable TV use an A1200 to show the program grade on a given channel using Scala. They update it every 24h and soft-reboot.
Was funny to see the Workbench loading near 6am and then the programming. The Amiga run from '96 to 2005, non-stop. And even without replacing the original 80Mb HD!
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my 3000T was on 24/7 for 10 years from 1999-2009.
Now I only turn it on for 1 hour in the morning
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don27dog: Don't suppose your BBS is Telnet'able?
Maybe you could give the number? PM if you prefer....
telnet uzisuicide.servebbs.org
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Great historys Guys!!
Yeah!..that make me back in time!
in all the time i have Amiga, (1985) to present, more time i used was 40 hours..
But i know many people and friends turn on the Amigas many time, in TV channels too, for the logo, others in Recording studios, and Animation Studios too..
Anyway, in this times i just use the Amiga no more than 24 hours..
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i think longest time was a few weeks spent pratting about with read3D i got off a coverdisk. got some pretty good models built and laid out. then the rendering...
A500 with 2Meg chip. about 1991/2
what else... maybe some weekends with vista, or mandlebrot progs generating anims.
on A500 / A1200
then i think the last heavy bout was converting interlace MJPEG's recorded on the digital broadcaster to progressve mpegs via arexx feeding imageFX then some jpeg/mpeg frame stacker. maybe a weekend+ to convert about two hours DVD quality video on an 060... that was about 2003...
none of my machines have actually been on at all for ages... might fire up the 1200/030 just for something amiga'ish on the network
not done any mega uptimes to compair to bbs's but might crack out 3D on the A500 for old times sake ;)
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Whats the longest you've ever had an amiga be turned on in one sitting?
My 1200 has currently been powered on for over 3 months... That matches about the longest stretch for me I think. I have rebooted it during this time, I am talking about actually turning the power off. My signature should give away why I keep it on 24/7.
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hmm.. 24/7/365 since 93' or so to now.. This A4000 has only been off for repairs or upgrades. It started life as a 040/25mhz A3640,but i got it with a warpengine 040/40 and the piv came around 96' i think , and then a cyberstorm MK2 060,then cyberstorm PPC..ironically all this ran just fine all these years with the stock psu(it still works today!) and i didn't lose a psu until i put this in a elbox tower and mediator.The cheap atx psu died 6 months later and i have put a total of 3 in it since its been towered.it still runs everyday and is in use.current config is cyberstorm ppc 060/60 604e/233 128M ram,Mediator with voodoo 4 4500,sb128,tv card,deneb USB,100Mbit ethernet,fastlane z3 with 128M ram,and i use a 32GIG kingston CF as a system drive via the cyberstorm ppc scsi and acard UWscsi->ide bridge and a 500GB ide hd as a storage drive,dvd burner,also on the UWscsi.I think i paid $1000 (seemed like a million dollars at the time :)for this machine with the warp engine in 93 from a friend and seem to have gotten my moneys worth.Takes a lickin' and keeps on ticking ;)
mike
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My Amiga 1200 has been in continuous use since 1995, and it's had uptimes of more than a year at a time:
http://www.ziaspace.com/lilith/ (http://www.ziaspace.com/lilith/)
Maybe it's cheating to count NetBSD uptime since it has memory protection, but it's still an Amiga.
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Looks like I misunderstood the question. I have had my Amiga powered on 24/7/365 since June of 1989. I have only taken it down for upgrades and moves from house to house. Oh I also had it down for 13 years from 1995 to 2008 when I didn't own one. :lol:
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The 'amiga university' A2000 webserver has been online almost nonstop since March of 2000. There were only a couple brief periods of offline (backups and disk rebuild once) in the first 8-9 years - last fall we upgraded our DSL to a faster speed - which hasn't been kind to the Amiga, requires a lot more reboots now - I think the spiders just over do it when browsing the site, despite an updated robots.txt, etc.
And yes, there are many pages with broken links - if I was as organized as I'd prefer, I'd be fixing them far faster - doh!
http://www.amigau.com