The big, studly primary machine is Aahz. The decidely wimpy (but getting smarter every paycheck) server/firewall is Skeeve. My fiancee’s box is named Tanda. The one on the network, that is, not the other one!
Justin
Laptop-- Hugo (Geertgen was vetoed by the co-owner)
desktop- Hieronymus
(I’m a northern Renaissance art geek)
My computer is unoffically named Malfean, which happens to be the name of one of my IRC bots (if you don’t know, don’t bother asking). I never actually call it that, but felt like renaming the li’l “My Computer” icon.
Incidentally, if the name Malfean means nothing to you, you’re once again better off not even asking.
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
My laptop is named “The Shitty little bastard”. Of course if it freezes up, or otherwise causes me trouble I refer to it using some combination of expletives, but otherwise thats what I call it.
My current laptop, a PowerBook 3400/200, is named Greystoke. Its hard drives are named Bolgani (boot volume) and Tantor (games and such).
My previous computer had three drives, named Jezebel, Delilah, and Bathsheba.
I even name my printers. At my old workplace, the antique slow printer was named Herbert. When we finally got a new one, I named it Maxwell. And no, I was using the alias before I named the printer, so I’m not named after it…
This thread would be much better if it was about a different box.
HAL is the name of the computer I’m currently using.
H -> next letter in the alphabet -> I
A -> next letter in the alphabet -> B
L -> next letter in the alphabet -> M
Studi
When I grow up, I want to be the Minister of Silly Walks.
[clueless]I have cardboard boxes all over the place. None of them have names. [/clueless]
This laptop is Yertle, as in Yertle the Turtle in Dr. Seuss. (It’s my school/business 'puter.) He isn’t exactly a speedy creature.
The crashed Pentium I unplugged and lifeless in the closet is Sparky.
My third computer…whenever I decide to finally go through and buy it…will be Turbo. (All nicknames are ones my boyfriend and I use in real life for either someone who is really stupid, or has done something really stupid: “Way to go there, Sparky.”)
Teaching: The ultimate birth control method.
Poster You’d Most Like to Date–Female
Second Official SDMB Awards
I named my SGI at my old job Cassandra, which I thought was really appropriate for a computer. Of course, I had to explain it to everyone else in the office.
Haven’t named my box at home (or that other one 
) but I’m sure the kittens call it “that thing that mommy’s always playing with when she should be playing with us”
I guess I’m not enough of a geek; I have to set up fresh workgroups a couple of times a week that only persist for a few hours or days.
I uniformly call set them in fours to match their position in the classroom; Huey-Dewey Louie-Scrooge, also Larry-Curly-Moe-Shemp, also Mercury-Venus-Earth-Mars. Just stuff you can remember in order.
My personal machine at home is Atlas.
My NT Box is Reno, My Win98 Box is Tahoe, and I’m thiking about getting another that’ll be called Sparks. I don’t know why I chose cities in Nevada, but I did. Hell, I’ve never even been there. Oh well. Nerd thy name is me…
::sigh:: I admit that I, too, was thinking of the wrong box. and oldbroad, thanks a lot. My mom’s name is Harriet.
It’s not how you pick your nose, it’s where you put the boogers
When we upgraded, I made my b/f name the computer ‘Pane’, the c drive is 'Curtains, and the d drive is ‘Drapes’. It just seem to fit so well with Win95. 
My single box is Stallion Gate with Hard Drives named Trinity(system disk) Gadget(a flakey little drive) Fatman(my new 13GB disk) LittleBoy(a 1.5BG I use as “safe storage”)
“Never mistake lack of talent for genius”
Try Chapter 24 of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Hactar was a powerful spaceborne computer … but it never wanted to take over the universe.
I am the user formerly known as puffington.
I didn’t say takeover… it was the only computer ever to be shocked by a question asked of it. When it refused to destroy the universe, it was destroyed, but lived on in some way, and eventually evolved the Krikketmen so that it could complete its original purpose.
Oh, and JSexton: Gleep!
http://www.madpoet.com
Clerks - Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you.
My first computer was called Ami, (an Amiga 2000) Unfortunately I recently sold her on E-Bay, and have been kicking myself ever since.
The 2 pc’s and laptop I have currently don’t have any sort of qualities that would make me offer a name.
Hopefully soon, my newest one will emerge as a potent force for me, but until then, they shall remain nameless.
Hey MaxTorque, I have a Delilah too - my G4! I also have a Mac SE named Icicle. When I had the use of a laptop, I called it wallaroo. My SO’s PC is Husker (he’s a big footbal fan).