how many computers do you have in your household...

[bridgit]

:shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

1. Two:

A laptop and a desktop.

[bridgit]

4. same here!!

:hi: :thumbsup:

[NJ Democrats]

2. I have 2 right now

We also have a laptop but it isn't in the house right now.

[Mutley]

3. Just one.

Though I hope to get a laptop sometime in the next year or so. Then I'll have two.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. Six.

Five iBooks, ancient iMac, and a Powerbook. I don't think the MacPlus really counts since it's gutted and I'm in the process of turning it into an aquarium. The iMac is a spare hard drive pretty much, but it will also be an aquarium within a few months.

(They're not all mine. For myself, I have two of the iBooks, the iMac and the gutted MacPlus)

[bridgit]

7. well yes dear, but you live in a palatial estate no...

just kidding :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. It's a McMansion, but not a palatial estate.

There's always "new" hand-me-down macs since that's what my stepdad runs his company off of.

[bridgit]

12. then in the future going forward we will not settle for anything less...

than italian marble from michaelangelo's quarry what say :D new hand-me-downs can be the very best kind :thumbsup:

[Monk06]

23. So you have six computers with six directories some of which are yours?

You are either very well organized or facking
crazy.

Just kidding. I have one PC 40 gig memory, partitioned
and my D is still 90% free after working on it for
three years.

It's a good thing you're tuning some of those machines
into aquariums. I'm not sure that's a good idea for the
fish. Although I'd love to know how you make them water
tight.

May I suggest Terrariums with a couple of nice Bonzai
gardens with nice lighting?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

35. Well, three of the computers I have nothing to do with.

I have about 60 gigs in music alone. The displays on one of my iBooks and iMac (one of the originals) are messed up, but the computer itself works fine, so basically, I use them for extra music space. All I need to do is firewire connect the storage mac to the iBook I use and start it up (holding down "T") and it just appears as an external hard drive on my desktop. It's pretty easy actually.

As for making them water-tight, you gut the whole inside, dremel down everything that pokes out and then you build a seperate aquarium that will custom fit inside the computer. It's not about making the computer water-tight, but rather actually building an aquarium that will fit inside the shell of the computer.

Here's pictures of what it will turn into:

[Monk06]

39. That is just way too cool for words. You are a genius. Finally someone has

finally found a practical use for the PC.

(Ahem, 2000 AD computer Luddite grumbling
in defeat)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

40. I'm not the genius.

People have been making aquariums out of dead macs for years. You can find the plans and tons of pictures online. With some basic tools and patience, they're pretty easy to make. I am getting the glass professionally cut though. I have a feeling I'd fuck that part up. So once I do that and silicone it together (easy), I will have a MacPlus aquarium. Eventually, I'll have an iMac aquarium too.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

41. I'm not the genius.

People have been making aquariums out of dead macs for years. You can find the plans and tons of pictures online. With some basic tools and patience, they're pretty easy to make. I am getting the glass professionally cut though. I have a feeling I'd fuck that part up. So once I do that and silicone it together (easy), I will have a MacPlus aquarium. Eventually, I'll have an iMac aquarium too.

[Monk06]

43. So I'm even more behind the times than I thought, I think it's time for

me to sign up for the old folks home and
start studying up on shuffle board rules.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Three at the momment.

Mine, and two laptops.

[bridgit]

8. we got a lap, but the deck has most of our bizz programs on it...

:thumbsup:

[ghostsofgiants]

11. The desktop is mine, Dad has his laptop...

And my brothers share the other one.

[bridgit]

17. kinda hearing you there, desktop has more processor and such...

we use the lap basically for reports while on the road, digicam upload...stuff like that

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Exactly.

Dad has his for work, the brothers mostly just listen to music and browse the internet, and I do shit like graphic/web design, audio production, etc. (Plus the occasional game, haha.)

[bridgit]

32. yup, there it is...

we'll toast with spring water, foamy bubbly spring water i guess :toast:

[ghostsofgiants]

38. Haha, bitchin'.

:toast:

[Guava Jelly]

10. Thats a tough question

I have three tv's that have computers in them.
I have two computerized cable boxes.
I have two computerized dvd players.
My camera and video camera
We are surrounded by computers.

Or?
Were you asking about PC's ?
In that case two desktops and a laptop.

[bridgit]

15. that's kinda what got me thinking today, we took our dvr in cause...

it was tripping out (works fine now), and this one little dude walked in with like a dozen boxes, clickers, old analog boxes, dvr's...we were thinking he was shutting down a hotel of some kind dude had major equip took him three trips just to bring it all in

[RoyGBiv]

47. Several ...

I have three that I use, two of them for specific purposes, and a laptop I don't because I hate it.

I have enough parts to put together about 8 more, of varying qualities. I piece one together occasionally to play with stuff.

[Shine]

13. This is embarrassing.

We have six, altogether, for a family of four.

My hubby personally has 4 of them. He's a computer guy, what can I say? :eyes:

Plus, I have one and our 12 yr old has one, too.

There you have it.

:hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. My family is the same way.

[TimeChaser]

67. 6 working ones

I have my laptop and desk top. My dad has a laptop. My parents have a computer in there room, and my siblings each have one in their rooms.

[bridgit]

16. evening there Shine, well...

that sounds like america to me :hi:

[Floogeldy]

18. None of your damn business.

:smoke:

[bridgit]

19. how can you know that for sure...

:P

[liberaltrucker]

20. Just the one between my ears

The laptop and desktop are just silicon-based wannabes, for now.

:beer:

[bridgit]

21. pft...

:spray:

[bicentennial_baby]

22. Un ordinateur, pour trois personnes...

Et trois DUers, a la meme fois... :crazy:

[bridgit]

24. smart ass...

that's english for 'smart ass' :rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

25. Merci!

:rofl: bridgit!! :rofl:

[bridgit]

28. cheers...

:toast:

[bridgit]

26. oh, forgot this part...

:hi:

[jobycom]

27. If you count the Apple II-C, three.

But it may not work any more.

[bridgit]

30. then three it is...

:-)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. Well.......my dear bridgit.............

Three!

My husband has two Macs.....

And I have my PC.........

That's it!

They are all hooked together in an ethernet....and we have fiberoptics now....

Much faster than DSL.......:hi:

[bridgit]

33. although we just have the two, three seems the mean average...

evening, Peg, we have broadband as well = like it :hi:

[barb162]

34. 6

[bridgit]

36. hey barb162...

we have a couple 6 packs in tonight as well :hi:

[Jazz2006]

37. More than I have occupants....

hee hee ~

My desktop, my daughter's desktop, my 2 laptops, and my daughter's laptop. It would be worse but I just loaned yet another laptop to the devilchild's boyfriend :D

[XemaSab]

42. 2

1998 iMac and 2005 Toshiba Satellite.

[bridgit]

50. coolness...

:patriot:

[SoCalDem]

44. Eek.. we have 5 (including 2 laptops)

and there are only two of us here:(

[Nicole]

45. 4

3 desktops
1 laptop
1 person in the house

All Macs except the person in the house.

[hunter]

46. Less than two dozen. Anything more would be obsessive.

I used to have more than that.

At least four computers are wired up to the internet at any time, and the rest are computers I don't want to get rid of for some reason -- my apples, ataris, amiga, and oddball things like my sinclairs.

I've also kept the second microprocessor based computer I ever built. I'd have kept the first one too, if I hadn't dismantled it and used its parts in the second.

Many of these computers haven't been fired up for a long time because modern emulators are getting to be so good. In addition to my real world ataris, I have the atari 800 of my dreams emulated on my linux machine. I can play my old atari games full screen or in a little window, or write programs in 6502 Assembler, Action!, or Frank Ostrowski's Turbo Basic without leaving my linux desktop.

[LeftyMom]

48. Four

My sister's desktop, my laptop, my son's desktop and the c64 in the museum of obsolete technology (aka my hall closet.)

[Control-Z]

49. three

[CatholicEdHead]

51. Three, only two working now

Need to get a new power supply for the other one.

[yellowdogintexas]

52. three right now, four when my husband is home with his laptop

and 5 if my daughter moved back in.with us.

Ridiculous, you know.

[flamingyouth]

53. Two - mine, and his

:)

[bridgit]

60. us too!!

:-)

[citizen snips]

54. 1

[deadparrot]

55. Three.

Mine (I'm a college student), my brother's, and a general family desktop.

[CanuckAmok]

56. Just one:

I only have room enough for one. If I need to multiply ten-digit numbers, I have to go next door.

[bridgit]

61. pft...

:spray:

[Kajsa]

57. Two

One desktop
One laptop- both Apples.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

58. Six. We have three people that live in our house.

[txwhitedove]

59. I have 2 - a laptop and a desktop (Acer)

[bridgit]

62. that sounds right...

:thumbsup:

[txwhitedove]

66. Yeah, but my daughter thinks I should get rid of the desktop...

My idea is to network the 2, using desktop for music, pictures, and the laptop for work.
The Acer Aspire is very small and I love it. Will get rid of the old bulky monitor.

[bridgit]

68. while i appreciate daughter's contemporary resolve, we use our desktop...

as a main-frame heavy lifter & network into the lap; it has all (as in all the rest) of the bizz programs we use :thumbsup:

[LeftCoast]

63. Thirteen

Ten servers, a PC desktop, mac mini and macbook pro (laptop).

We run a business out of the house.

[hyphenate]

64. Two

Desktop and laptop. Right now, I'm using the laptop because my desktop crashed, I had to get a new hard drive, and I'm afraid to go near it to get it up to speed and reinstall XP and all that stuff.

[Jamastiene]

65. 3, although only two of them are partly usable.

I bought one very cheaply just for parts because I had an older motherboard and needed memory for the other computer. At that time, I only had 2 in the house. I graduated from the electrical program at college and decided to pursue the mightly computer engineering degree. My mother rewarded me with some graduation/continuing my education money. I bought my Gateway. I rebuilt the old one for my aunt to use, but then lightning hit me and my Gateway and I needed parts. The parts from the old computer were so old that they couldn't handle this kickass Gateway. I just haven't gotten around to putting the old soundcard and old modem back into the other working computer in the house. I know no one could possibly follow that insane explanation. Sorry. I'm confused now. Let's just say I have 2 computers and one is an antique.