How many computers do you have?

The main ones are my laptop and my wife’s desktop, plus my old laptop, still in good shape after I replaced the disk. Then we still have my old machine running Win 98 in the garage. Still works, though barely. We also have an XO from OLPC, which didn’t work with our wireless. I can probably bring it up now, if we cared. At the moment we have three more laptops, since my daughters and son-in-law are here for Christmas. I think that makes 8.

Running regularly: three.

  • This homebuilt (not by me) desktop, my daily workhorse
  • My ThinkPad laptop
  • Mr. S’s Micron desktop, which is my old one

Gathering dust: five.

  • Mr. S’s old Dell laptop
  • A Mac PowerPC behind me that hasn’t been turned on since I don’t know when
  • My first desktop (Leading Edge, ha!)
  • An old Quantex laptop
  • And I think Mr. S’s old Mac Performa is upstairs somewhere

I’ve given away HAL (my old IBM) and a boat anchor with two 8" floppy drives, running Xenix, that my dad got from a church.

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A slightly-dented “late-2006” MacBook Pro, my current computer.
Three ZX81s, one mounted in a proper case with a real keyboard.
My iPhone 3G.
The hand-built wire-wrapped 8-bit computer I had to make in electronics school. It worked long enough to be marked. (I passed.) No idea whether it works, but the tape has peeled off the window in the EPROM and I suspect that the boot code has been erased by light and time.

Plus three calculators.

Working computers… Uh, 7 or 8 laptops, a desktop and a server. So at least 9 between the 4 of us. 6 of them get used regularly (4 laptops and the two server/desktop). At work I have 20 or so.

I need to get around and build me a gaming system.

I own a computer shop…

presently there are 7 here, laptop in truck, laptop at home.

So, only 9 :cool:

3 for two of us.

All three desktops. One replaced the third which became our “watching netflix instant movies” computer.

I know a place looking to part with a beast of an Dell XPS 2.66 quadcore, 2g ram, 750G hdd, and dual 512m 8800 GT’s wants $1K for it might take $750-$900 I will pass on contact info if you are interested.

Daily use: one desktop (media server), one laptop (every day stuff and school work), one smartphone running Windows Mobile (games, web, and the occasional phone call).

I also have a good selection of older computers-- TRS 80 Model 1, TRS-80 Model 4p, TRS-80 Model 100, Panasonic JR600, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga 1000, Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, Atari 600xl, Atari XEGS, Atari 800xl, Atari 800, TI-99/4, TI-99/4a, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Epson QX-10, IBM PCjr, IBM PC (5150), Apple IIgs, some unremarkable Apple clones by Franklin, Coleco ADAM, Mattel Aquarius, Exidy Sorceror, DEC Rainbow… I’m sure I’m forgetting a few dozen more.

Two. My desktop which is my main computer and a laptop which I use when I travel. Although I suppose I theoretically have a couple of other old computers I don’t use in a closet or the basement.

Four. Husband and I each have matching laptops–we can swap out batteries or power cords if need be. My old desktop, which needs a video card or something, and a smaller, used laptop that’s sitting around as a backup. I got that one from a co-worker for $75 and really should power it up again as she left on tons of software and fonts for me.

I’m thinking of getting another desktop, though. The laptop’s great, except I hardly ever take it off my desk, the battery drains in forty minutes, and there’s no numeric keypad, and…

Two adults, four computers, one dog.

Let me see:
A Win95 laptop (actually bought in '95), worked last time I tried.
A Win98 laptop (from '98) in the guest room. Networked and good for email.
My wife’s desktop, bought in '99 and upgraded to XP when the disk died.
An NT2000 laptop (from '02) that needs OS reinstalled.
An XP laptop (from '05) that is my regular computer I use daily.
A travel laptop (form '07) that came with Vista and now downgraded to XP.

That makes six for the two of us. In addition, in my office I have a desktop and in a storeroom, a genuine IBM PC bought in 1982 that still worked in '92, the last time I turned it on so that a visitor could get email. Except for my wife’s work computer, these were all bought with funds from research grants.

I have several but they are serial, not parallel, if you know what I mean.

I have this one, the latest & newest. G4 PowerBook (last of its line).

I have the one that came before it, largely retired except for scanning work and the occasional nostalgic boot into Panther or even OS 9. G3 PowerBook ‘WallStreet’ Series.

I have the one that came before that as well, hasn’t been booted or used since November of '06, but for a couple years it did a stint as a file-copy machine (OS 8 could copy big image files from one AppleTalk server to another faster than OS X — in part because it made no attempt to draw the damn thumbnails when the folder was opened). My last desktop computer, a PowerMac 7100/80.

I do not have the one before that (a Mac SE) but I do have a stock LC someone gave me, with System 6 installed on it.

5 total

1 ancient Apple Power PC 6100 pizza box
1 Power PC G3 desktop
1 Dell P4 desktop
1 Dell PIII laptop
1 HP Centrino Duo laptop

The only one that doesn’t work is the PPC 6100. The only one I really use these days is the HP. The two Dells I use for composing & recording but I haven’t been doing much of that lately.

I have this one I’m on, a Dell refurb that I use for work.

There’s the old old old Optiplex that I rebuilt that I used to use for work, now sitting over there >>> on the spare desk, in case anyone needs to use it.

I have a Mac Mini that doesn’t get turned on too often. It’s for work for when we need to test sites on a Mac.

There’s the server/TvPuter in the living room.

Then there’s the ancient laptop, an IBM ThinkPad from the 90s that runs XP just fine and conks out every few days. I use it in my bedroom to stream video off the TvPuter.

Plus probably 6 in the basement in various stages of disrepair, to be used for parts.

So, 5 working machines for the one of us :slight_smile:

I am ashamed to admit this, but I have 5 here.
I started typing the long, convoluted story behind all this, then deleted it. The upshot is, I have too many computers. I’m probably going to get rid of 2 of them, keep one for a backup, and fix one up for my dad.

The two I want to get rid of are from the early 2000’s and are around 1.5ghz p4’s. One has Windows Me, one has XP. Any suggestions on what I could do with them?

I also have an old CRT monitor that I’d like to get rid of. It’s nothing super great, but it does work fine. It won’t work with Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 though (the refresh rate isn’t high enough).

I’m currently running a Vista desktop PC, and have three OQOs in various states of evisceration on my desk as well. Work laptop in the living room, and an older work laptop (so old they haven’t bothered to ask for it back yet)… an older Imac in the kid’s room velcroed to the floor, husband is running ubuntu on a desktop across the room and ignoring an old PC tablet and a macbook whose wifi went tits up. There’s also a file server in the guest room.

Behind me in a couple of floor-to-ceiling stacks are 34 additional systems, ranging from G4s to rack mount servers, and another stack of about a dozen cannibalized carcasses: we need to have a little chat about those (they were supposed to be hocked on craigslist two months ago.)

A couple years ago I tried to give away two dozen VT220 dumb terminals… all but a couple of them ended up going to an electronics recycling event and pretty much got tossed except for their power cords.

We’re computer people.

We own four:

The ‘main’ desktop in the kitchen/family room, which is also our ‘gaming’ computer
An older desktop in the spare bedroom
**Rhiannon8404 **has her laptop, and Santa brought bought The Kiddo a laptop for Christmas.

I use my work laptop quite a bit as well. (I’m posting from it now, in fact.)

Three in use and one dinosaur in the corner.

My husband has a desktop that is way more powerful than anything he does needs.
I have this laptop, a 3.5 y.o. Compaq 15.4"widescreen which is my main computer, and I also have a 10" widescreen EeePC which is so freaking perfect for school and traveling since it weighs nothing and has enough battery power to watch at least 2 movies and a 1 hour TV show episode on while in-flight (really, we did this on Sunday!)

I’m not even sure what the dinosaur is, but it makes a good coffee table and the younger cat likes to sit on it.

1 XP desktop
2 XP laptops, one needs to be backed up because the MB is shot (You have to just about sit on it to make it boot; somehow I made it last through my final year of college), the other is iffy
1 MacBook

That’s for the two of us and doesn’t include other people in our multi-family household. I think the total is somewhere around 7.

I inherit other peoples zombies, 2 are desktops running xp 1 is a laptop I put puppy linux on. Then we have the 2 normally used desktops, and a laptop my wife bought for school… If you had asked me about 4 months ago, I would have around 8 more. They weren’t zombies though, they were properly dead. If you want to add them, 1 Wii, 1 X-box (NOT 360), 1 PS2. I think I have 4 all in one printers, brand new, in the box. Two hooked up and running. 5 or 6 in the basement not working. If some one wants to get rid of a zombie, Still working but very outdated, they seem to bring them to me. If I can fix them up and give them away I try. Right now I am thinking of setting up one of my old zombies for the kids to play on. We have a bunch of older games to put on them that won’t work with Vista.