How many working computers do you have?

[kenmo]

I have three...

AMD Athlon XP 2500 (Barton)
AMD Athlong 1800
AMD Duron 750

Just picked up a Celeron D 340 and mobo so the Duron will be retired by Easter...

[yoda313]

My old PC, which I sold to a workmate and then bought back off for a smidgeon of the price three years later
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Hope you don't mind me asking, but um,, why did you buy it back?

[Baldrick]

2

athlon 3800
pentium m 740 laptop

[Doramius]

2

athlon 3800
pentium m 740 laptop

I take it the laptop is the storage server for videohelp? J/K

[jimmalenko]

My old PC, which I sold to a workmate and then bought back off for a smidgeon of the price three years later
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Hope you don't mind me asking, but um,, why did you buy it back?

It had a videocard that was one of only half a dozen ever made that wwas officially supported by a PC game called Shane Warne Cricket 99. I'd never been able to find any other video card to play it.

[JEEPn]

I have 3(always on) machines, 1ghz, 2ghz, 3ghz...do you see a pattern
there is also an 800mhz machine but that my wife's and it on 24/7 also. Probably give the 1ghz machine as soon as I can get all her programs to work on it...she hates upgrading...her moto
"if it's not broke and still works why upgrade".

Now if we are talking computers that are not on but still work I have:
3 - commodore C-64
2 - commodore C128
2 - commodore SX-64 (portable C-64)
3 - Amiga 500
1 - Amiga 1200
2 - Amiga 2000
3 - 1084 Amiga monitors

I think I need to purge

[yoda313]

I think I need to purge

Try the smithsonian - they may be interested in some of those

It had a videocard that was one of only half a dozen ever made that wwas officially supported by a PC game called Shane Warne Cricket 99.

Ok that makes sense. Video games are worth doing strange things I hope it still worked when you got it back

[painkiller]

5 up and running PCs.

1 Atari Stacy (luggable) laptop in the garage.

All networked, wired and wireless - including two TIVOs.

[jimmalenko]

It had a videocard that was one of only half a dozen ever made that wwas officially supported by a PC game called Shane Warne Cricket 99.

Ok that makes sense. Video games are worth doing strange things I hope it still worked when you got it back

Worked flawlessly

Well .... OK, not flawlessly. Finding an XP driver was a bit of a challenge and I ended up having to use a generic WINNT driver to get it to run under XP. THEN I had to configure SWC99 to run in Win98 emulation mode. Working good now though.

[unclebud]

3 desktops 1.3 or faster. (1.33, 1.6, 2.4)
3 laptops 1.3 or faster. (1.3, 1.5, 2.0)
These are mine and mine alone.
5 others for family members and work related. (400mhz to 1.5)
Sometimes I think it's too much, what if the network got struck by lightning. Holly ?hit batman. I'd be !@#$ed for sure. Oh well I'd just have to buy all new stuff.

All desktops are on UPS's, laptops on surge protection only.

All are Internet but the work machines stay offline.

(Edited for bad spelling)

[julitomg]

only 2

Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz with Pinnacle capure card (Studio Deluxe) for video/audio/graphics editing, encoding & DVD authoring. No antivirus, no games, not even wallpaper or clock display
Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz for mundane chores (internet, printing, scanning, etc...)
Both desktops, although my wife insists she need her own laptop....so if anyone knows of anyone who is about to throw away a nice working one....

[Almost Human]

7 -YIKES!

New Compaq Laptop 1.4 Celeron - Genealogy trips
Old Compaq Laptop Duron 950 - Volunteer work
Homebuilt Athlon 2200+ - main workhorse
Homebuilt Athlon 2400+ - capture & encoding
Homebuilt Athlon 1900+ - PVR
Local dealer built Athlon 1800+ - Wife's computer
Comodore 128D - I'm not giving up till I solve Suspended

[Faustus]

I know its gonna be at least one more from me as soon as Apple releases the Intel version of the PowerMac.

[rhegedus]

5

Main PC - 2.53GHz P4, 1Gb RAM, 1.5Tb HD space used for video editing
Laptop - 3.2GHz P4, 512K RAM, 80Gb HD space occasionaly used for encoding
Girlie's PC = 700MHz P3, 512K RAM, 80Gb HD space for light stuff

and two Celeron based PCs I built for our parents.

[burnman99]

Technically 6.

1. AMD XP 2400 Win2k Machine

2. AMD XP 1700 Win2k Machine

3. Dell Pentium 2 266 Mhz at ex gf's house

4. Pentium 2 233 Mhz Machine Maybe win 95

5. Peintium 200? Machine No O/s

6. Pentium 166 mhz Win Me i think

7. Non working 1 Ghz machine Probably needs either new CPU or MB. Will put Fedora 5 on it when it gets working.

I need a bigger KVM Switch I tells ya

Later

Roger

[mikesbytes]

I have 3(always on) machines, 1ghz, 2ghz, 3ghz...do you see a pattern
there is also an 800mhz machine but that my wife's and it on 24/7 also. Probably give the 1ghz machine as soon as I can get all her programs to work on it...she hates upgrading...her moto
"if it's not broke and still works why upgrade".

Now if we are talking computers that are not on but still work I have:
3 - commodore C-64
2 - commodore C128
2 - commodore SX-64 (portable C-64)
3 - Amiga 500
1 - Amiga 1200
2 - Amiga 2000
3 - 1084 Amiga monitors

I think I need to purge

Interesting to see the number of people with computers from the past. Noticed when surfing the web the other day that there were still Amiga user groups out there. Also recall seeing a web browser for C64. What's a COCO? is it a Tandy TRS80?

[edDV]

I maintain a computer museum in the basement.

Apple II
KayPro 2 running CP/M
IBM PC 8088 w/sixpackplus, VGA, Ethernet, 30MB HDD running Windows 2.1
386/40 tower running Windows for Workgroups 3.11
IBM 486 "butterfly" (ThinkPad 701C) notebook with full up docking station (Win98Lite)
HP Pentium I 200MHz runing Windows 95
Micron Pentium II 300MHz running Win98se

plus other assorted junk. There used to be a MAC IIci but I gave it to my niece.

[GKar]

What? No one has a Timex Sinclair, a Vic 20 or a Ti99-4a?

Sad

[edDV]

I wish I did.

[mikesbytes]

What? No one has a Timex Sinclair, a Vic 20 or a Ti99-4a?
Sad

Vic 20 was my first machine. Had to get memory expansion so I could type an entire page of text.

[Doramius]

What? No one has a Timex Sinclair, a Vic 20 or a Ti99-4a?
Sad

Vic 20 was my first machine. Had to get memory expansion so I could type an entire page of text.

I got 2 of those in a closet somewhere. And a Commodore 64/128. Nothing beats having a severely limited MoBo inside your keyboard. I just call those expensive Calculators. That's all I used it for. I had (maybe still have, but not sure where it is) a tape drive and remembered playing a tape for 30 min. to play PacMan (or a game that played very similar to PacMan).

[edDV]

What? No one has a Timex Sinclair, a Vic 20 or a Ti99-4a?
Sad

Vic 20 was my first machine. Had to get memory expansion so I could type an entire page of text.

I got 2 of those in a closet somewhere. And a Commodore 64/128. Nothing beats having a severely limited MoBo inside your keyboard. I just call those expensive Calculators. That's all I used it for. I had (maybe still have, but not sure where it is) a tape drive and remembered playing a tape for 30 min. to play PacMan (or a game that played very similar to PacMan).

What are you complaining about? You were spoiled with a cassette. Try punch cards and paper tape. Or setting switches on a MITS Altair 8800 http://oldcomputers.net/altair.html

[mikel]

Or hows about the old single-board KIM or SYM ..no case...where you had
to pgm it through a hex keyboard. !

[Doramius]

So waht you're saying is Battlefront II and Quake might not be supported without upgrading the RAM?

[Mr. Dweezel]

2 that I've built.

I still have a lot of old machines that I was going to use for projects like
home automation, but probably won't get around to it. Besides 1 new PC
could probably automate better than the old garbage PCs that I have!

[yoda313]

So waht you're saying is Battlefront II and Quake might not be supported without upgrading the RAM?

Um...... I don't think those had cd drives

[ofbarea]

PC:

1. Thinkpad Laptop X31. Pentium M @ 1.4
2. A self made Pentium D 920 @ 3GHz. Mobo ASRock 775Dual-880Pro
3. A Dell Optiplex GX1 upgrated to Celeron Tualatin 1.4 GHz
4. A self made P III-S 1.2 GHz. Mobo Asus TUV4X
5. Clone XT PC. Intel 8088 @ 4MHz, RLL 30GB disk drive, 512 KB, EGA card and monocrome monitor. Still boots but the keyboard is damaged.

Non-PC:

1. Rado Shack Color Computer 1. Stock Motorola 6809 E CPU @ 0.895 MHz, Upgraded RAM to 64Kb, Upgraded to Extended Color Basic. Used for cartridge and tape games.
2. Rado Shack Color Computer 3. Upgraded CPU to Hitach 63x09E @ 2 MHz. Upgraded RAM to 512 KB. It has a A Multi-Pak (a 4-port bus expander) plugged into the Expansion Slot, a RS-232 cartridge, a SuperIDE Interface with Real-Time Clock (Boots NitrOS-9 from Flash card) and a floppy disk drive.
3. Rado Shack Color Computer 3. stock Motorola 68b09e CPU @ 0.895 mhz, Stock 128 KB RAM and floppy disk drive.

[Conquest10]

Now I'm up to 6. Just got a PIII and mobo for $10.

[mikesbytes]

Does anyone encode on a machine thats not Microsoft, Unix or Mac ?

[rhegedus]

Not for a while - I used to be quite handy with BBC Basic when I was using a BBC Master about 20 years ago.