How many computers do you have WORKING?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I should start a poll "How many computers do you have"

 

well hurry up already! 

Here ya go 

[Calum]

My laptop, my desktop, the family desktop, and my emergency PC.
4.

[street1 (RIP)]

I got 4. 1 Gateway,2 Dell Optiplex GX110's and one Compaq SR1023WM.

[Sidewinder]

Three:
   Dell Desktop P3 w/XP Pro
   Dell Laptop P4 w/XP Home
   IBM AT w/PC-DOS 7 and Win 3.1

The IBM PC keeps me humble. 

[squall_01]

WE have about nine that all work two of them are laptops.  Two that need fixed or maybe just the one.  I have 5 which the one is in the process of being built. 

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I have my laptop, two family computers and three experimentals.

[macdad-]

i have a desktop, and getting another soon. 

[squall_01]

Another one that I'm in the works of building.  The other is one that need a few parts in the last post.

[michaewlewis]

If you count working computers at work, I have about 50 computers and 15 servers. But at home I just have 4-5.
Oh wait, 4-5 isn't an option.... I'll go with 5-8.... 2 laptops, 2 desktops, 1 server

oh, and I have an old laptop that I'm turning into a digital picture frame, too, if that counts.

[computeruler]

my desktop and a family desktop

[homer]

i have just one, i gave my other one away.

[Broni]

Don't tell me, someone has 9-12, or 13+ computers at home???

[Bones92]

*embarressed look* 14 working... 17 in total...

[squall_01]

I have two more that my dad got if you want to call them that there non working c64's, plan to get them runing, has everything to it.  Minus the monitor,but has the printer, joystick...

[squall_01]

Just remember that I have parts enough to build another two.  I would need another case for the one though.

[stevejohnson1958]

Two desktops and one notebook.

[soybean]

Three desktops and one notebook.  However, one or two of the desktops are probably going to the next local computer recycling drive; that will leave me with my main desktop and my notebook.  The oldest desktop was purchased way back in 1995 and has Windows 98SE (originally Win 95) on it. The next oldest is one I received from someone who wanted to get rid of it; it has an 800MHz processor and 128MB of RAM, with Win ME.  I may keep that one for awhile; I've thought of adding some memory to it and installing Linux Ubuntu on it.

[drmsucks]

Laptop, 2 x desktop and ASUS eee. The laptop and one desktop dual boot - is that 2 or 4?

[Soviet_Genius]

2 desktops, 2 laptops. One of the laptops is a 486 with Windows 3.1.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Ah....3.1....... 

[Soviet_Genius]

 

[BC_Programmer]

I will now detail all the specs I can from memory on all my working machines

Main PC, just replaced my K6-2, feels really fast:

Dell Dimension 4400
Pentium 4 1.6 Ghz
Windows XP SP3 500GB HD (partitioned 250GB C: and 250GB D:
Nvidia Geforce FX 5500OC
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
IOGear USB 2.0 card
D-Link XTreme-N Wireless Card


Older PC, my brothers using it now, at least until he gets a mac ()(oh well, at least I tried to get him into computers.

MVP3G-M Motherboard
AMD K6-2 350Mhz
80GB HD
Windows XP SP2 (I doubt he updated, so it's probably still SP2)
He's also installed all sorts of viruses and malware! I've cleaned it twice for him now, but apparently he enjoys the less wholesome entertainment on the internet (or he did, until I denied it's Mac address access to the net (lol), same with his PS3 and PSP, all denied.
ATI Radeon 9250 PCI (oh well)
Create SB Live!


Also some crappy Cyrix computer- not particularly worth mention at all.


and my two laptops too!

Toshiba Satellite 440CDX

133mhz Pentium MMX
Windows 98SE
144MB of RAM
2GB HD

IBM thinkpad 755CDV
75 Mhz Pentium (non MMX)
PC-DOS 2000 and Windows 3.1
8MB of RAM


Strangely enough, the thinkpad gets used the second most by me, aside from my main 1.6Ghz- why? Sometimes I feel like playing the original Doom executable, maybe to just run the speedruns on COMPET-N.

[Calum]

one desktop dual boot - is that 2 or 4?

If dual boots would count as more than one I have too many to count
However the thread is about computers, so I would say it's just one computer no matter how many OSes it has.

[macdad-]

hopefully i'll get a laptop  and a bunch of networking cable. trying to home network here but running out of cable 

So far my main pc has the following specs
Optiplex GX150
P3 @ 1GHz
256MB DDR 1 RAM
20GB HD
Win 2k
(perfect for my robotic creations, muwhahahaha  , Lego Mindstorms)

Once i get some more mula i'll try to Upgrade my optiplex with 256MB more RAM, an external HD about 40 - 60GB (i dont need that much mem) , a P4 @ 1.4GHz, a new PCI Graphics card perhaps around 128MB of VRAM with VGA port. then i'll have a good programming and gamin machine.

[Calum]

Don't bother with a P4 at that speed - you'd need a new board for a start, and the earlier versions are pretty slow too.  If you see a faster P3 though, especially the S versions with the extra L2 cache, and your board supports it, grab it, they're good.
Win2K will fly with 512MB RAM though, trust me.
Enjoy.

[jhay_e03]

Im proud to say, i only have 1 desktop!!!
But I will upgrade this... maybe soon??? 

[macdad-]

Don't bother with a P4 at that speed - you'd need a new board for a start, and the earlier versions are pretty slow too.  If you see a faster P3 though, especially the S versions with the extra L2 cache, and your board supports it, grab it, they're good.
Win2K will fly with 512MB RAM though, trust me.
Enjoy.

i know about the ram, i said im adding another 256MB of ram. but i guess i'll skip on the cpu and just go with the graphics card and the ram.

[squall_01]

xp and vista are branches of windows?

[macdad-]

yea there apart of the Win NT family, so is Win 2k

[squall_01]

If you dont know DOS, you dont know Windows....Thats why Bill Gates created XP and Vista.

This statement conderdicts its self. 

[macdad-]

actually theres since in that. all the version of windows, up to the Win NT family of OS's were based upon DOS. Windows NT, 2K, XP ,and Vista arent based on dos which makes it self-realiant. Win ME was the last OS to be based upon DOS(16-bit)

[squall_01]

I thought that where all dos based?  Well Learning as I go.

[macdad-]

no The NT(including NT x.x, 2000, XP, Vista) family of OS's where the first to be self-reliant without the need for DOS.

If you dont know DOS, you dont know Windows....

Thats why Bill Gates created the Windows NT Family.

(i changed it)

If you knew about DOS then all the Windows version up to Win ME were second nature since all the were were fancy GUI's that made DOS easier to use without even having to type stuff on the command prompt. Once Windows NT came out, it was a whole new world since the NT family was 32bit compared with the 16/32bit hybrid of the old Windows versions.

(This is all from wikipedia.)
 ...It was intended to complement consumer versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS. NT was the first fully 32-bit version of Windows, whereas its consumer-oriented counterparts, Windows 3.1x and Windows 9x, were 16-bit/32-bit hybrids. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Home Server, and Windows Server 2008 are based upon the Windows NT system, although they are not branded as Windows NT...

see it here.

[squall_01]

Thats interesting, so in theory I dont need to have an understanding of dos too much to fix these.  Working on one pc that was working. 

[macdad-]

Thats interesting, so in theory I dont need to have an understanding of dos too much to fix these.  Working on one pc that was working. 

yea if you need to fix a computer with an NT OS.

[squall_01]

Thats good,  was able to fix it dvd drive problems.

[reaper_tbs]

i own 5. only have 4 here

[squall_01]

I think eleven,  I have a dell,a custom build,another custom build I got for free, another dell.  My dads compaq,his dell, another dell,dell laptop.  some old laptop, custome build, another custom build we got for free with linux.  These all work too working on another two builds.