How many computers do you have?

[Kens]

ONE I must need more?

[owenmpk]

Well I am Systems Engineer / Desktop Support geek for a dot com so my home does not need heating in the winter due to the systems
9 Desktops, used daily by me an the family, running XP and Windows Media Center. (oh 2 are gaming systems only)
2 Laptops used as needed
1 Server that I play with and maybe one day setup as a webserver and see how long before it gets hacked.

Oh and currently I have 4 systems I am working on for friends / beer money. (maybe now it should be teardrop money)

[Boodro]

3 working , 1 for me & wife, 1 for son ,1 for daughter. Several in various stages of undress!
First machine was COmmodore 64! WWOOOHOOO! Tape drive & 2 floppy drives.

Then a Commodore pc, 4.77 mhz , 640k mem. ! Screamin machine , but still no harddrive , but was in color!CGA! WOW. then had a 20 meg harddrive installed for 300.00 bucks! Sure beat flippin floppies to run software!

An i work in a school with about 4000 computers! DON'T I EVER GET ENOUGH!!! HELP ME PLEASE,PLEASE, PLEASE!!

[Rob]

WOW! I can't believe all the 'puter power here. We share one old desktop at home on dial-up and I have one desktop at work on a 10BaseT. Wanna know why I do most of my computing at work?

[sftiggee]

i have an emac thats on all the time, a mac laptop for work, my boyfriend has a windows laptop and two nonworking win servers that are parts machines atm.

i guess i'm not doing too bad considering the amount of computers others here seem to have

[campadk]

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.

Wow.. this takes me back...

If I'm not mistaken my first would have been a Cosmac Elf which I build from a plan from a Popular Electronics article back in 1976. A whopping 256 bytes.. yes BYTES of memory not MB or GB! (.000256MB for you memory hogs out there). No disk drive. CPU was an 1802 which ran at a blazing 3.2MHZ... for you 2G types... that would be .0032GHz LOL

So to sum up my first computer.. its was about .15% as fast as the average computer today and had .00005% of the memory your current machine most likely has! BUT it was blazing fast and results were instant!!! Unlike Microsoft today...

The fun part was that you programmed it with a row of switches!

[Finntec]

5 total. Two Macs, two PCs, and a Mac iBook. The iBook does double duty in the TD.

[Coca Cola Teardrop]

We have 3 pcs (2 are quite out of date but work) and we just got our first laptop. We now have DSL and are set up wireless networking so I may never see the laptop again (in daughter's room). Laptop will go to craftshows, vacations, etc. with us. You would think with this new technology I could post a picture in a message but I still can't even following the help with photos. (my daughter can't either)
Linda

[Larry Messaros]

Wow

Lessee, I started out with a Commodore 64 with a floppy, colour monitor and a 1200 baud modem and I was surfin' the bulletin boards long before the internet was around. I gave up my Compuserve account about 7 years ago.

The next was an Amiga 1000, great machine, but limited software availablitly. Then off to the PC world with a NEC Pentium 60 which I still have!! Why? Hmmm, must be sentimental reasons!

I currently have 3 working desktops, 0ne for my wife and I and 1 for each daughter plus a home laptop and a work laptop all running on a wired/wireless network connected to an Xplornet 2-way satellite system with 1gb download and 256Kb upload. It works great. Moving from civilization with DSL to the country with 22K dial-up, I had some severe internet withdrawal so I had to come up with a solution. Nothing money doesn't take care of!

I also still have my P60 in a box as well as 2 other systems in various states of repair or parts!

And here I thought that I had too much computer stuff, boy, some of you guys are waaaaay ahead of me!

[dwgriff1]

I have one 4 year old iBook.

It goes with me when I go camping. (plug it into the car at night).

dave

[Old Coyote]

First one was a Vic 20.

[davel]

My first was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. It had a whopping 2k of memory expanded to 16k. Had no idea what Meg was back then.

[kirtsjc]

Out of curiosity, how many computers do you have at home?

Oh well, to make it simple:

4 PC desktops, 2 laptops, 1 CD jukebox server, 1 RAID server, 2 hubs, 1 cable modem, 1 laser, 1 inkjet, 1 24pin NLQ wide-carriage

THEN: 1 switch, 1 bridge

To finish off:

2 Macs, 1 mac clone laptop

In storage:

4 ATs with (gasp) glass platter HDS
1 Grid laptop (NOT FOR SALE DON'T ASK!)
1 Tandy 8" 180k floppy drive
More 8088 chips that I can bother to count (some with Dual CPM BIOS)

and about 10,000 AOL disks and CDs....

Hummmm.... Is that why I run the AC in the winter, and have electric bills? NAH! It's that durned light in the 'fridge that is always on....

[kirtsjc]

We should revise this thread...

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

Thread revison:

WILL have a wi fi receiver gimmick up, and 1 laptop when Generic Weekender is finished next month...

(No Madjack, no pics just yet, but the camera is repaired...)

WHOO HOO!

[kirtsjc]

Let's go one step farther, what was/is your first computer and do you still own it?

For a 3,000.00 investment, my first system was:

IBM PC, 256 RAM, 2 5" floppies (replaced 1 floppy with Seagate Gravel Grinder (10 mb?) ), Amdek Amber screen monitor, 88 METAL keyboard, epson 9 pin narrow printer.

And, AND!!! Ready for this?






























A state-of-the-art 300 baud accoustic cradle modem! ( and my broadband cable is STILL too slow!)

And I still own parts of it - kinda