In 1966, Lander and Parkin published a paper containing exactly two sentences. They reported that they had used a program that used direct search on a CDC 6600 to obtain one counterexample to Euler’s Sum Of Powers Conjecture. The result: 27^4 + 84^4 +110^4 +133^4 =144^4 A small program, written in Fortran and using OpenMP, reproduces this result (and others of a similar nature) in two minutes on a current PC (OpenMP, 8 threads). I am curious to know if anyone can estimate how long the CDC 66...