How many working computers do you have?

[yoda313]

I have 3 - my emachine Celeron 2.66ghz desktop.

An old Pentium 2 HP Omnibook notebook used mainly for light surfing via wifi/dsl.

And an ancient 386 that was working perfectly the last time I tried it out a few years ago.

[edDV]

define "working" heh

[lumis]

define "computer"

[budz]

I have 5 working pc's - P4 4 3.00ghz use for video encoding, P4 2.40ghz video encoding, surfing the net, P4 2.26ghz surifing the net, newest is AMD 64 VENICE 2.00ghz & AMD XP-M 2.20ghz guinea pig pc that I use for testing new hardware like DVDRW's.

[yoda313]

define "computer"

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563087/Computer.html


Computer - machine that performs tasks, such as calculations or electronic communication, under the control of a set of instructions called a program....

Sorry to be a smart-ass. Couldn't resist

[v-sharp]

P4 1.7GHz 1GB DDR for word processing, internet and downloading.

AMD Athlon XP 2900+ 1GB DDR for video capture, edit and burn.

P4 2.0GHz notebook for word processing and other document stuff.

[Noahtuck]

4 in the same house.

3 side by side so i can just roll right and left between them.

Enough parts for prob. 3-4 more, that i would bother building, more if you include the bunches of mobo's & extra CPU's, old ram, ect. that would not be worth putting together, like 400-800mhz.

[cpotoso]

I have:

a 20 node dual G4 (500MHz) cluster
a 10 node dual G5 (2GHz) cluster
a 15 node PIV (1.8GHz) cluster
and 10 PIV machines ranging from 667 MHz to 3 GHz.

Most are used for scientific computing

[Faustus]

Four, but they all make sense if you think about it.

1. A low end machine that serves out the internet to the rest of the family.

2. My main box.

3. My laptop

4. Machine I keep at a friends house because I spend at least a day or two a week there.

[Conquest10]

I have 4 working but also have another that I guess can technically also be called working. All it needs is a power supply.

Main computer
Laptop
Family computer
"Powerhouse" Computer
PII that will most likely be used for company once I get the PSU

[Sabro]

8 currently on the (home) network.

1 - 3.0ghz
1 - 2.6ghz
1 - 667mhz
1 - 650mhz (laptop wifi)
1 - 550mhz (laptop wifi)
1 - 500mhz
1 - 300mhz
1 - 133mhz

Sabro

[strummy53]

6 Total

3 laptops (HP,Toshiba,Dell)

3 Custom made desktops (AMD 2500,AMD 1800,Sempron 3100)

Also 2 more in the works

[waheed]

I have 6 working computers

2 are old PCs not in use anymore (but still work). In the garage collecting dust.

3 PCs in the house in use and 1 Laptop.

[HAMP]

I have 4 computers at home.

One if them so I can play while the other works on projects.

The other 2 are for guest, if they feel like searching the web or playing some games.

or at any given time, all 4 are used for LAN games.

[MJA]

one AMD 64 3000
one DURON 1600
one LapTop Dell Inspiron 8100

not working
Packardbell 133 MHZ ($3000 at that time.lol )

[Dv8ted2]

I had two but I gave away one. I will build another at some point.

[computeguy]

Hello all,

I have 10 Desktops of various speeds starting at 3.0g and minimum of 1g ram
and I also have 2 Compaq Presario laptops.

I design computer systems for the NYSE and I love to play around at home
with different OS's.

[whitejremiah]

i've got 3 of em total at the moment, gonna be ditching one of em though..........

Desktop1:
AMD athlon 3700+ 64
768mb ram
310gb hdd space total
128mb ATI 9600 AIW

Desktop2: (this is the one im getting rid of soon, so it's stripped down quite a bit)
AMD 2400xp
128mb ram
60gb hdd
onboard 32mb video
dvdrom drive

Laptop:
AMD 3200+ 64
512mb ram
80gb hdd
onboard nvidia video (not sure, as i dont make use of it for gaming or anything else really...but i think it's 64mb)

[Craig Tucker]

4

2800 barton, 2500 Sempron, 2000 Sempron, 2.1Ghz pentium mobile laptop.

Arent all bases covered without the "other" option in the poll

[rallynavvie]

1. Main workstation - dual 3.06 Prestonias on an Iwill DH800

2. Secondary workstation - dual 3.2 Noconas on an Iwill DN800

3. File server and HTPC - dual Athlon 1900 MPs on a Tyan 2460

4. Internet machine - single 2.4 Northwood in a POS Dell Dimension

5. Main laptop - 1.83 Centrino Duo in a Sony Vaio SZ

6. Old work laptop - 500 MHz P3 in an IBM Thinkpad (still use it for email and office work)

7. Junk laptop - 1.6 Celeron in a Compaq (use it for mobile internet surfing at home)

These don't include two more which are now at my cabin full-time. In fact #3, 4, and 7 will be heading there soon.

[Doramius]

I have 5 but am currently working on #6.

[gadgetguy]

10 total working computers but only 5 or 6 in operation at any given time.
3 - laptops - 1 in operation
5 - towers - 4 in operation
1 - Commodore128 (Yes it still works, but it's not in operation)
1 - Commodore SX64 (This works too, but the screen has some bad spots.)
I also have a COCO but I'm not sure of it's operational status.

[NormaJ]

Wow, and I thought I was a freaky, myself, hehehe.
5 here, by the way. 4 desktop and 1 laptop.
Main pc is a Pentium Dual Core which I'm really happy with. Others PIV, and Centrino for laptop.

[pchan]

I have 3.... 1 P4 3.0C, 1 AMD XP 3000+ and 1 AMD XP 2500+.

Given away.... 1 AMD TBird 1.4Ghz, 1 AMD Xp 2000+.

[isogonic]

all on home network:

1 laptop Intel 2.0ghz
1 desktop AMD 1.0 (my honey pot)
1 desktop AMD 2400+ (main computer)
1 desktop AMD 1.0
1 desktop AMD 800mhz

coming soon AMD64 bit

[ROF]

define "computer"

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563087/Computer.html


Computer - machine that performs tasks, such as calculations or electronic communication, under the control of a set of instructions called a program....

Sorry to be a smart-ass. Couldn't resist

In that case, do microwaves and my smart stove count as working computers? both can be programmed to run a specific instructions at certain times, can be programmed to shut off. They even adjust themselves for daylight savings time.

[lumis]

Don't forget your alarm clock radios.

[trossin]

It depends what do you define a computer to be?

Check out my web site for some pictures

Here is my list of "standard computers":

220 KHz 1802 based hand soldered on perf board computer
Z80 Timex/Sinclair computer (I think it runs with a 3.579545 MHz clock)
6502 based Comadore 64 color computer (2 or 4 MHz)
6809 based Radio shack computer (4 MHz)
TMS320C30 based hand soldered and wire wrapped on perfboad DSP
66 MHz 486 based Gateway computer
100 MHz 586 based HP computer
600 MHz Pentium 3 based HP computer

Microcontrollers:

ZEncore! based development board
3 programmable Thermostats
1 sprinker computer
10 to 20 micro controllers flashing LEDs that I've built
1 microwave computer
1 oven computer
1 computer in my Bose radio
2 VCR with 1 computer each
2 TV sets with 1 computer each
2 DVD players with 1 computer each
2 cars with mulitiple computers each
1 engine computer
1 controller for the radio
1 controller for the CD player
2 monitors each with a computer to display on-screen crap
3 programmable calculators (1 with a Z80)
5 handheld games
4 remote controls each with a microcontroller

I'm sure I forgetting other computers. I would bet there are 4 or 5 microcontrollers inside each of my Intel based computers (CD drives and hard disks each have one).

[Treebeard]

3 computers

Athlon xp 2700 - my desktop

Celeron D 2.2 - my HTPC

Dell 2.4 Cel laptop - wifes laptop

[jimmalenko]

6 at this point in time.

One "miscellaneous" machine (surfing, Office products, etc)
One encoding machine
GF's laptop (for work from home)
My laptop (for work from home)
GF's Mum's PC (reinstalling Win98SE as I speak)
My old PC, which I sold to a workmate and then bought back off for a smidgeon of the price three years later