How many computers do you have?

[Sonetpro]

We should revise this thread...

How many puters do you have in your teardrop? (Good question for TearTecho man.. Gage)

In the Teardrop?

No better not the boss would shoot me.


Besides the laptop has wireless broadband and the LCD TV has a input for a monitor.

[Arne]

I make my living investing in the stock market so am on constantly, but compared to you guys, I feel like a piker.... one 24/7 desktop, 1 wifi IBM thinkpad (that does go in the teardrop).....

[Kevin A]

7 desktops in working condition, 2 of those are in use at the moment. a couple dead boxes in the grave yard. one laptop that shares it's time between the house and the teardrop.
Let's go one step farther, what was/is your first computer and do you still own it? Mine started out life as a pentium 75, it still works, but sitting in the storage room.

[TRAIL-OF-TEARS]

What's a computer?

Just have the dell WIFI laptop at work. The wife has a 5.5 year old Gateway at the house, we live in the boonies so all we have is dial up at home. If I am not at work or at school with the Laptop I don't even want to see a computer.

[Chris C]

Heck, no wonder all you folks are puter whizzes!!!!! I've got one on the desk and an old laptop that works so slow I could shave my beard and grow it back before the darned thing finished a virus scan!!!

[bg]

2 desktops, 2 laptops

[Sonetpro]

Let's go one step farther, what was/is your first computer and do you still own it? Mine started out life as a pentium 75, it still works, but sitting in the storage room.

First was a IBM PS2 286, DOS only. First "modern" Packard Bell with a blazing Pentium 60 upgraded to 16mb ram.
I sold the IBM a year ago for $100 on ebay (Vintage computer) I still have the Packard Bell and it still works.

[Micro469]

My first computer was a 386 DX2 with 4 meg of ram, 150 meg hardrive,with an HP Deskjet 500 printer. Both still work. I now have 2 desktops and 3 laptops at home.

[Mike B]

Wow. I thought I was bad with 9 machines - 3 notebooks and 6 working desktops in a network. That doesn't count my wonderful Sharp Zaurus PDA running Linux. Or the Z-80 CP/M machine out in the garage. Or the Super Elf in the basement.

Oh yeah, all the working computers have Linux on them. Two of them dual-boot with Windows 2K.

My first machine was a Southwest Technical Products 6800 machine I built (from parts) in 1978. I also built a TV typewriter, paper tape reader and cassette mass storage interface for the machine.

Mike
Hayden Lake, ID

[Spadinator]

Two desktops...on laptop....Palm pilot all on my Wifi network!!

[apratt]

Wow I am one of the few minority I just have one laptop, wife does have a work labtop that she use at home. We also have two cell phone wich we brouse the internet with some times, kinda small screen.

[surveytech]

ONE

[An Ol Timer]

Enough! Rather than go into the numbers of computers that we use I'll just say that a person can only use one keyboard at a time. What we place more emphasis on is the programs and the ability for all to be able to use them. Everyone must be able to use the 2D CAD, the 3D Modeler, the word processor and the spreadsheet. We also have found and keep the programs that best serve our purpose and that jumping to the so-called new and better stuff only seems to cut into a person's productivity.

[Denny Unfried]

My first was an Osborne, then three TRS-80's which I still have before owning many PC's. One of the TRS-80's has 16K of RAM and a cassette for storage and the third one has a 20MEG Winchester hard drive that is almost as large as the computer. What a change over the years since we used to have to write our own software to get them to do anything.

[Arne]

A/O/T, after 'retiring young' in '95 and starting this investing stuff, it was a job, all day every day.... that has all changed though it took a while.

Now I have carpal tunnel, and have determined that computers are addictive and am working my way out of it.... I do email and ant-virus stuff... my investing takes only an hour a day, tops.....

I do not understand MP3, IPODS or how to put phone numbers in my cell phone (which is in reality just a portable phone booth for me; don't even know my ownt number).

I put off buying anything that has an owner's manual bigger than the item.... I am.... getting old.