How many computers have you had?

[Versus]

5 here, including my new laptop.

1st: bought by my dad in 1998, 300mhz, 32MB of RAM, 6GB HDD.
2nd: bought by me in January 2004, some Compaq box, upgraded to 768MB of RAM, 2ghz AMD proc, 80GB HDD, nVidia 5700GS
3rd: built by me in December/January 2005/2006, parts were mostly bought by me, the others were Christmas presents, 2GB RAM, AMD 3800+ X2, 1TB HDD (4x 250GB), nVidia 7800 GTX.
4th: built by me in December/January 2007/2008, parts were Christmas presents, 6GB RAM, AMD Phenom 9500+ quadcore, 2TB HDD (1x 1TB, salvaged the HDDs from my previous computer), nVidia 8800GT.
5th: laptop, bought about 2 weeks ago, some Intel dualcore proc, 3GB RAM, 250GB HDD, ATI Radeon HD 3650.

edit: fuck, if you're on a public computer for some reason, ignore the last part of the question, I can't edit it.

[Budr]

My Dad built me a computer out of spare parts about 10 years ago and I've just upgraded that ever since, never bought a wholly new machine.

[copulatingduck]

Should we include work computers or machines we owned a portion of (ie built for public use) ? If s0, I'm 9+ instead of 7-8.

Most of those are junkers that other people didn't want that I plundered for my stuff. Otherwise, I've only ever paid for 6 machines in my life (all in the last 4 years - now I know why I'm always so broke :'()

What I've paid for

• server #2 which was my old desktop
  
• my new desktop
  
• my failure-of-an-xps laptop
  
• my much better emachines laptop that I gave to my old man
  
• a desktop that I lost to Mrs Duck in a bet
  
• a desktop that I built for my bro - which I didn't count as it wasn't mine
  

What else I've had

• Old P2 my folks gave me and my bro when I was in high school, played a lotta wurms
  
• Old SparcServer for messing with teh lunix Freshmen year
  
• an iMac I pulled from the junk pile for the purposes of using it as an alarm clock (my old one broke)
  
• P4 me and a few friends built together for MyhtTV
  
• Old P3 I ganked from a reuse-pile for moar lunix

edit: Forgot about an old SparcsServer I had and tinkered with Freshmen year, but ultimately gave to a friend for an OpenBSD server, so switch my 7-8 to 9+ anyways

MIT has lots of free computers 

[NiceGuy]

Wow, looking back on it.. I've gone through a lot of computers (9+)  :o

There are currently 2 desktops and 3 laptops in my house.

[ScottyGrayskull]

Hmmm.... Not counting upgrades... 3. Just because no upgrade was really enough to be considered a new machine.

- Parents bought a 486/33 back in either 92 or 94 (I remember the winter olympics were on at least). I paid to upgrade it to a Pentium 166MMX with 16 mb of ram and a 1.5GB hdd.
- Compaq Celeron 667Mhz in 2000. Upgraded it around 2004 or so to an Athlon 2.4 Ghz with a gig of ram, and am in the process of upgrading it to a Core Duo ~2.6 Ghz with 2 gigs of ram.
- Compaq laptop, ~1.8Ghz and a half gig of ram, since upgraded to 2 gigs.

Obviously there have been a few dozen upgrades during that time that I'm not including though. :p

[Luinbariel]

I don't know the current number of actual working computers in this house because there are simply too many.

In my own experience outside of HeK's stuff though, I've had about four that I can think of.

1. I considered it mine, but my brother was always super into this stuff when we were younger so we had a family computer
2. At the end of my last year of highschool I'd saved up enough and bought myself a new mish-mash machine... nothing was as fun as coming home that day with a HUGE box of random parts and having my brother help me assemble the thing.
3. About two or so years ago HeK bought me a Toshiba Satellite R20, my favoritest laptop ever so far. It was perfect for me at the time, was great for my drawing and stuff... but it couldn't game for shit with the new stuff I always saw him playing.
4. Thus was born the latest computer, another mish-mash of parts we bought and I assembled, with help of course.

[Neonie]

I've owned 2 generic pieces of shit and am currently building my first custom with donated (<3) parts from the BRB!U community and some I had to buy my self.

[jdub28]

My first computer was also thrown together out of other crappy computers.
since then Ive had 11 or 12, but only 7 different cases.

[Versus]

My Dad built me a computer out of spare parts about 10 years ago and I've just upgraded that ever since, never bought a wholly new machine.

What're your system's specs?

[CaffeinePowered]

Original (1994): 100mhz Pentium 1, Windows 3.1/DOS, went through several Upgrades all the way to 500mhz Athlon, but Ill just count it as one PC

1st Custom (2000): Abit Mobo w/Athlon 1.1 ghz Thunderbird and a Geforce 2 GTS - Win 95, later 98, later 2000

2nd Custom (2003): Asus A7N8X Deluxe, Athlon 2800+ (2.13ghz?), Geforce 4 Ti 4200 - Win 98, later XP

1st Laptop (2004): POS hand me down, 1 ghz Pentium 3, ran Win 2000, later Mandriva Linux

3rd Custom, Current Desktop (2006): Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe, Athlon 4800 XP+ AM2, Geforce 7950 GX2, XP, later Vista

2nd Laptop (2007): Asus Laptop, 2.3 ghz Core2 Duo,  ATI Mobility X1700, Vista

New box Apr 2009???

[shipero]

Here's been my computing history to the best of my recollection.

1 An old 386 that ran DOS. I was about seven.
2 A Packard Bell with Windows 95. I was about ten or so.
3 A Dell with Windows ME. I was probably fifteen, I think.
4 A three year old Dell that my school was giving away. It ran XP but not very well. I was eighteen for sure because it's the computer I took with me to college.
5 My current machine, An Acer I bought off of Newegg when I finally got a job that payed more than minumum wage. It's starting to show it's age but has no PCI-E slots so upgrading's impractical.

I'll be building my next PC but that won't be until I buy a new TV and surround sound system.

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

Five.  No I can't remember years.

1. A 386 (SX I think, whatever the older version was between SX and DX) Magnavox IBM compatible.  On which I played freaking awesome games like King's Quest 1-4, Sid Meier's Pirates! and others.

2. A Packard Bell Pentium 133 mhtz.  Man that thing was a pile, but dammit, I could play Jedi Knight.

3. A Dell PII 533 mhtz.  A step up and with less being a packard bell (hell?).

4. A Dell PIII 933 mhtz.  Had a 64 meg voodoo 5 5500 PCI card.  Got so good at tweaking the damn thing I got Jedi Knight 2 running reasonably on full settings.

5.  My current laptop.  Core 2 duo 2.4 ghtz, 3 gigs ram, 256 meg Geforce 8600M GT.  17 in HD screen, native res 1920 x 12000.

[HeK]

As I have 11 in my apartment at the moment.... Not including my work laptops.

I had a green screen IBM XT, followed by a amber screen AT/XT with a graphics card and a 40mb hard drive and MODEM!
NEC ProSpeed 286 'portable', AST Pentium 75 with a 1GB HD!!
Moved to a parts built Cyrix 200+, then upgraded to a AMD K6 350 with a Voodoo graphics accelerator.
New parts PC with a Voodoo3 and a AMD K6-2 500.
Grad gift pc in 2001, a parts built AMD 1.3ghz and GeForce 3, 2gb ECC ram

The rest of the time is fuzzy, mainly with exchange of hardware and PCs among family and friends.

Currently I game on a Pentium D 720, with a GeForce 6800, using a Asus EEE Pc as a portable.
I have a Pentium Core2Duo 2150 w/ 6x 750gb hard drives as a headless nas/server.
a P3 800 as a smoothwall router, a IBM 6578 as a mail server, three more 'free' PC's doing various other stuff (syslog&IDS, MythTV, new os's, etc). My ProSpeed is still kicking around for annoyance.
Then there is Luin's PC and laptop.

I also have two managed switches, a layer 3 24 port Fore and a 8 port Dell gigabit powerconnect.

My xbox runs XBMC.... does that count as a PC?

[Eschatos]

I'm on my second.

[Budr]

[quote author=Budr link=topic=770.msg19858#msg19858 date=1215540302]
My Dad built me a computer out of spare parts about 10 years ago and I've just upgraded that ever since, never bought a wholly new machine.

What're your system's specs?
[/quote]

heh it hasn't got any of the original parts

[Fail Medic]

Four, three still alive. 
- A Texas Instruments something-or-other that hooked up to the TV, had a game cartridge slot and taught me BASIC.  Ancient almost-forgotten history.
- A Gateway 750 MHz (donated to Mom <3 )
- A Dell Inspiron that's only good for meeting note-taking and screwing with Linux
- My current PC posted in the Rig thread. 

I didn't own a "modern" PC until July 2000; that was the Gateway.

[ZargonX]

Sheesh... let's see if I can remember them all...

1. An Apple IIe.  Good ol' green and black screen, until we got an amazing device that let us hook it up to a color (gasp!) tv.  Played Maniac Mansion on this thing, which was awesome.
2. A Dell... 286, I guess?  Don't really remember clearly, as I was probably only 8 or 9.  I do remember it was the computer I was introduced to Space Quest III on, though.
3. A Dell 386 that was "my" first computer.  It was in my bedroom and everything.  And it had a modem.  Prime games I remember playing on it: Civ, Sim City, and Doom.  Also the world of BBSs.
4. A Dell Pentium I that got me through high school and the first part of college.  MOOII, Civ II, Star Control II.  Lots of 2s.
5. A Pentium II that got me through the last half of college.  I don't remember much about it, but I do remember it ran Ultima IX out of the box, which was both amazing and... unfortunate.
6. A Dell laptop that I still have, actually.  Got in 2002 right before leaving for Japan to teach.  It was my primary computer for the next few years, until I got my first "real" job...
7. A Dell Dimension somethingorother that was a blazing 2.1 ghz.  I set this thing up to be a pretty sweet (at the time) gaming rig, and it served me pretty well until late 2006 when I got my current computer...
8. A Dell Dimension XPS 410, dual 2.13ghz Pentiums, etc.  Needs a better graphics card, but I'll get that in due time.  Otherwise, works like a charm.

That's a lot of Dells, I know.  But, like they say, you go with what you know, I guess.  I also had a Macbook Pro from work for a year and a half, but I had to give that back when I quit.  Ah well.

[jorge]

1. My first comp, around age 5: some 486 that I played Apogee demos and Reader Rabbit on.
2. Had it for elementary school basically: some local computer store built Pentium 1 w/ Windows 95. Used it to go on AOL.
3. Middle school and 1 year of HS: A piece of shit HP w/ a P3 500mhz that couldn't run CS1.3. Had to upgrade it with a GeForce4 MX 440. Hated this one so badly.
4. Since Sophomore year of high school (that's 4 years ago): my current beast that I built, at the time, for ~$1000
5. TBA 2011

[CaffeinePowered]

Never built custom zargon

[ZargonX]

Never built custom zargon

Every time I've gone to get a new computer, I've said "I'll build a custom this time!"

And then it turns out I'm lazy.

Go figure.