Hoiw many computers do you use at home?

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Hoiw many computers do you use at home?

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January 24, 2005 at 3:19 pm

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On a regular basis, that someone uses every week, not those old dusty ones in the basement.
I have one on my desk, my laptop for Sat and Sun mornings with the kids (and Sun NFL), an iMac in the kitchen, a pc for the kids, and my wife has 3 on her desk as a consultant.
7 used every week if not everyday.

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Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 1

I have a laptop from my work I almost always use (going online with it is free ). Apart from this I only use a Realtime brokerage system at work.

Then the one of my elder son. I use it only when I download the MS newsgroups or need to do FTP. Both things aren't allowed by the firewall on the laptop.

Hey, Steve, you've outperformed me by far on this

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Antares686 SSC Guru Points: 125444 More actions · Answer 2

Of the ones I listed, the 2 XP desktops are used everyday by me or rest of the family. The XP HE laptop is the wifes and is used everyday (she works from home). The MAC is a play machine and when I get aroudn to it will be mostly for use by the 1 1/2 year old to bang and play on plus I can test some developement there. The 2 Jornadas will probably go away, at least 1 anyway as wife never really used, mine has been for playing with developement but I want something newer. The Windows 98 SE machine with the older hardware is used mostly when I need to scan a legal sized document or am scanning old family photos in bulk, and occasionally I use it for a hand scanner I have for scanning out of print books I own for archiving and safety. Lastly the multiboot machine is used on rare occassions I want to play with an older machine and some older softwares I have so I can use my older joystick and such for games and a virtual rack software system I purchased (I play guitar) which will not work on anything but 98. The VIrtual PCs are an awesome playground as I have backup clean images of lot's of stuff, things I would never really use but want to play with, testing software bits I write, playing with old applications like MS SQL 6.x or older, and beta testing things like Office where I can scrap the image quickly and start over in a blink. I have a 250 GB external mounted hard drive and plan on purchasing at least 4 more when the price is right.

Dave-3000 SSCertifiable Points: 6186 More actions · Answer 3

Four refurbished Dells; very reliable and good price points when purchased. Two w/XP Pro, one for me to develop on and one for the wife to VPN to her work. One Windows Server 2003 w/SQL Server 2000 for me to fiddle with. One XP Home for my 10 y.o. to play on. Dare I ask, what does everyone use for backing up?

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Ford Fairlane SSCertifiable Points: 7664 More actions · Answer 4

Lets see, 2 Mac's a G3 and a G4 both used for graphic Design. A PC (XP-Pro )with 5 instances of VMWare running, one XP-Pro one Server 2003 as a web server one with Server 2000 as a SQL Box and a Unix Host for Oracle and WIN 95 just incase I need some old stuff and a laptop. Does a handhelp Clie on a wireless network count ? LOL

Hope this helps...

Ford Fairlane
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David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 76035 More actions · Answer 5

An old DELL 233 that I really must replace, but if it ain't broke...

An XBOX - must get it chipped soon.

Just given a friend my old Atari STFM1024.

My Yamaha CVP307 can connect to the internet and do all sorts of weird and wonderful things, if only I could understand the manual. I suppose that strictly speaking it is a computer but it is probably pushing the definition.

If you give the definition an almighty heave and twist then I would include my Korg T3 workstation.

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gbn SSCertifiable Points: 6429 More actions · Answer 6

Single XP Pro at home.

No SQL tools and haven't even got Access on.

Used for email, Half-Life 2 and Rise Of Nations. Not work 😎

Andrew C Thompson Old Hand Points: 326 More actions · Answer 7

A 'home-brewed' AMD Athlon box that boots Win2K & Linux - used most days, also to dial-in to work. Sometimes another similar box that son uses at Uni & brings home in long vacations.

A Toshiba 486 laptop the wife uses for book-keeping, tax, etc.,

An old Vale 486, an Amiga and a 1K Commodore PET (complete with built-in tape drive for cassettes!)

David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 76035 More actions · Answer 8

A PET!!!!

With the built in cassette means that it won't have a proper keyboard. There was also a POKE command that allowed the processor clock to be adjusted. The problem was that if you gave it a high enough value there was a resistor on the motherboard that used to explode!

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Wesley Brown SSChampion Points: 12045 More actions · Answer 9

Three HP LPR 1000's one no name 1U dual PIII 800 four athlon xp's one athlon 64. 3.5 TB of total storage. That's just the ones in my house and currently running.

Wes

edswartwout SSC Veteran Points: 211 More actions · Answer 10

I have 7 networked computers at home. My wife and I both have a compter running XP. My 4 children each have a computer for thier school work since they are attending virtual charter school. Those computers are 3 XP Pros and one 2k. My oldest son also has a laptop running XP. All of these are connected to a linksys broadband router and a couple mini switches. Network works great.

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Mike Saul Grasshopper Points: 13 More actions · Answer 11

Hmmm, a PET? Wow, got me beat! I've got, in order of frequency of use, the following:

Home-built Athlon64 3200+ with XP Pro for work, video, and GAMES! (The Radeon X800Pro helps

Home-built Athlon XP 2800+ with Win2K Server for consulting work and games

Home-built (a pattern there!) Athlon XP 1800+ with XP Pro and 98SE for testing and general internet stuff (the wife uses this one for her midi stuff, too

Home-built PIII-500 with Win98SE for general file storage and backups

Dell PIII 450 with NT4 as a test box for networking work

Packard Bell (ugh!) 486DX2-66 with Win98 for low-level development testing and visiting kids

2 Commodore 64's for the visiting kids with plenty of original games on 5.25 diskettes and cartridges (we have 16 nephews and nieces from 16 to 28 and 4 grand-nephews/nieces from 3months to 5years)

1 Commodore Vic-20, just for kicks (remember Gorf?)

Not counting the Vic-20, that is 8... I have a few strays I use occasionally with varying OSes from DOS6.2/Win3.11 to Win 2K Pro and ME

Julie Johnson-168885 SSC Enthusiast Points: 142 More actions · Answer 12

One Dell with Win XP Pro -- MINE, for homework, work, whatever. No one else touches it.

One IBM Aptiva with Win 98SE for my husband and the kids -- only games and MS Works on it. It doesn't even have internet access right now.

Then about three in the attic -- don't remember what's on them offhand.

hamiro SSC Enthusiast Points: 119 More actions · Answer 13

5 Desktops running XP home (1 for each member of the family)

1 work laptop running Win2K Pro

1 Linksys print server

All networked with a Linksys Router/Switch

Ross Hamilton
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rhunt SSCertifiable Points: 5868 More actions · Answer 14

Hmmm. Zero to two, depending on how you look at it. I always have a really nice laptop furnished by work. All personal and work info resides there so it stays where ever I am.

My fiance decided she liked the laptop and had to have something to work on when I wasn't home. So, I have a $2500 paper weight on my desk at all times.

Ryan