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Magnethead

Magnethead

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I'm thinking my room is just a hair overran by computers. If it's too hard to count, there's 2 in my office corner and 6 in my closet.

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for the record, i haven't tried having them all on at once. I already read the power supplies, and their numbers and the number on my room's break don't add up.

I have 4 power strips off one duplex outlet and the one on my dresser occupies another duplex.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
Why so many? You can only type on one at a time. LOL

I have one --- over 10 years old and still does what I need it to do.
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the sister to the one you have must be the one in our living room. Gave it to my mom for a internet computer.

the two over in this corner i actually can use at the same time. This one locks up because i have so many programs on it (before i got the 19" LCD, i had to turn my TV on so see the far right column since i have it as second display) and if i try to run more than 10 or 15 things it starts acting erractically so i moved the other one over to split the load. The 2 main ones in the closet are spare guest computers, and one white vertical one under the plywood and the 3 on the plywood are just there to take up space. lol

but they all run.

overall, i have these 8 in my room, one in the living room, one upstairs, and my dad's work laptop (technically not ours).
 
I use one at a time. :)

We have
2 laptops, I seldom use the laptop, but 2nd daughter uses her's all the time.
1 desk top for school (the two younger girls)
The desk top I post on.
 
Well hell, I have six computers, but three of them are in the closet and aren't useful at all. The wife has her laptop, I have my good one in the office and my backup downstairs in my workshop where I work on my models. There was a time when I could have had all the computers I could get my hands on right here in my office, but I grew out of that at the age of 56. So Mag, hang in there, you've got a long time before you change what you're doing. :) Hmmm, looking down the road some thirty some years from now I can see old Magnetleg still has an old computer running Windows 2015 version 2.3 and trying to keep it from crashing. :) The other fifteen computers are working fine and running the household, though Mag had decided that his five kids shouldn't have access to the Pentegon's servers. And Mag is still having fun turning his neighbors lights on and off during the night. They still think its the geek living two doors down from Mag and family. :D
 
lolololol ROFLMAO!!!

Can I have the 3 in your closet? lol (hey, 2 of the 3 on that piece of plywood never worked till i got my hands on them..lol)
 
Magnethead said:
lolololol ROFLMAO!!!

Can I have the 3 in your closet? lol (hey, 2 of the 3 on that piece of plywood never worked till i got my hands on them..lol)
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Sure, but you will have to update those computers, all of which are pre pentium. Two are 486 and one is a 386. Oh, the 386 is high tech with a dual speed CPU at 8/16 htz with a whooping full one meg of memory.
 
buckaroo said:
Sure, but you will have to update those computers, all of which are pre pentium. Two are 486 and one is a 386. Oh, the 386 is high tech with a dual speed CPU at 8/16 htz with a whooping full one meg of memory.
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dang never mind...i used a windows 3.1 computer but I don't have a 3.11 disc laying around in my room. THAT is a piece of history. Save it 20 more years then ebay it lol
 
Magnethead said:
dang never mind...i used a windows 3.1 computer but I don't have a 3.11 disc laying around in my room. THAT is a piece of history. Save it 20 more years then ebay it lol
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You know, that old 386 didn't have enough hard drive space to use Windows 3.1, so I used DOS. By the way, it took me about four or five months before I actually knew what Windows was. I have a closet of programs that I downloaded legally that ran on DOS commands. Of course, I could get a zillion of those programs on one 3.5 inch diskette. Those were the days where a 3.5 inch diskette was something of a new invention. When I took a course on computer use, the instructor didn't even have a hard drive and thought I was a "ringer" since my brother taught me how to re-write my autoexe.bat because I had deleted it somehow.

Those certainly were the old days of computing and I'm still a newbie.
 
Wow that is alot of computers Magnet..

I barely got two..this one i use for the normal stuff..post here and there and the other i have for downloads..music/movies/games you got it.

You may consider sending me some of those laying around. :D
 
reck said:
Wow that is alot of computers Magnet..

I barely got two..this one i use for the normal stuff..post here and there and the other i have for downloads..music/movies/games you got it.

You may consider sending me some of those laying around. :D
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lol

well i got monitors for all but one of them..i might as well profile em all here....

Dell dimension 4600
2.8 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
1.5 gig RAM
160 GB main hard drive
320 GB second hard drive
lightscribe DVD burner
internal CD-RW
external USB CD-RW
floppy
5.1 surround sound card
Nvidia 5500 overclocked graphics card 256 MB
LG 19" TFT LCD flatpanel display with Magnavox 21" CRT TV as second display

Dell optiplex 260
2.8 Ghz processor
256 MB RAM
7 GB hard drive
generic CD-ROM
onboard sound and graphics
Hennessy 14" CRT monitor

Compaq Presario EZ 2200
550 Mhz intel celeron
256 MB RAM
13 GB hard drive
generic CD-rom
CD-RW
floppy
onboard sound and graphics
Daytek 14" CRT monitor

Dell optiplex GX1
500 Mhz Intel pentium II
256 MB RAM
7 GB Hard drive
generic CD-ROM
generic CD-ROM
floppy
onboard sound and graphics
IBM 14" CRT monitor

Plywood computer 1
800 Mhz pentium III
192 MB RAM
7 gig hard drive
generic CD-rom
Trident PCI display adapter
Touch 13" CRT monitor

plywood computer 2
500 Mhz pentium II
192 MB RAM
4.3 GB hard drive
generic CD-rom
ATI AGP video adapter
Compaq 16" CRT monitor

Plywood computer 3
633 Mhz intel celeron
192 MB RAM
4.3 GB hard drive
onboard graphics and sound

spare/parts Dell optiplex GX1
500 Mhz pentium II
96 MB RAM
6 GB hard drive
generic CD-rom
floppy
 
I guess I'm the odd man out. The computer I'm normally on is about 6 years old, W98SE OS w/ 20G HD 500Mhz. Its custom built and was top of the line at the time. I've still got my old laptop, a Compaq 386 that is in the closet (somewhere). I have an IBM T20 laptop w/ W95 that is still in decent condition even tho its seen better days. A Compaq laptop 8150C w/ XP that I love but the wife doesn't like XP. I also have a Gateway laptop, XP, wireless, with GPS that we use on trips. I hate getting lost.
 
again, like TRL, that sounds like my mom's computer. It's a compaq presario 5700T.
 
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