https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxjjj/years-of-early-alien-hunting-data-are-at-risk-of-being-lost-forever
This is just sad. The title mentions data, yet the article talks about hardware. I suppose data is on those machines.
I joined SETI@home I think like two years after it started, grinding its bytes with my 1 GHz CPU. Nice memories.