How many PCs do you have in your household

[aneeshm]

I just wonder - if all civfanatics members donated all our obsolete comps to civfanatics then the server would be one helluva supercomputer (running distributed , of course). Or maybe bring them all to a convention and set up a supercomputer to be used by the community for developement work on the Civ series , or leased to Firaxis for game developement , or to anyone willing to pay .

I know , the idea is a bit wierd , but I've been toying with the idea of buying used components from electronic scrapyards (they sell by the kilo) and using the working components to construct a supercomputer .

 

[Perfection]

Ya know, that's how they built the world's third most powerful computer (except they used new machines).

 

[Inter4]

Let me see....

1) My desktop
2) Wife's desktop
3) Wife's laptop
4) Daughter's desktop
5) Grandkids' desktop

and

6) My Palm
7) Wife's Palm
8) Daughter's Palm

That's a lot of energy!

 

[America444]

well lets see... i have 7. my own computer. two family computers. my parents each have there own palm and there own laptop.

 

[Detlef Richter]

Hmm......2 countable at the moment, 1 desk and 1 notebook. 2 defect ones, 1 Commodore 64, 1 Commodore Amiga 500 and 1 Schneider CPC. But they didn't count exactly like the Mac's

If my doughter is old enough, i build up a net with one more desk and a server.

 

[Civrules]

At the moment, two, but soon, hopefully, three.

 

[FireBall]

Mac's don't count.

Have the desktop. Have my dad's old laptop I putter around on occastionally. Have a laptop and palm from work.

Sure they do! Macs are computers....

I have 4 computers in household, my brother's laptop, my desktop, my dad's desktop and an old computer-turned-linux box. Plus an ancient Palm... Which I suppose adds up to five, but I didn't count that one...

 

[damunzy]

No, it doesn't, it's not a PC.

Proof they count, kinda.

(Pocket PCs and Palms are considered Computers )

He opened it up to computers.

I have 4 computers sitting on my desk at work.
1) 650MHz SPARC II Laptop with 4GB of RAM. Yes, 4 GigaBytes. - my portable Solaris Server with 80HDD and CD-RW/DVD-ROM.
2) 1GHz Dell Laptop with 512MB of RAM - My main work computer.
3+4) 2 Dell 500MHz Desktops with 784MB of RAM each - My testing computers for work work <- not to be comfused with home work or homework.

 

[Paalikles]

Woa PH76, that is one beast of a server

2 athlon xp 2100+es and 1 laptop of some obscure configuration :crazyeyes:

 

[lord_yoshi]

1 P4 2.66GHz for me (Dimension 4600)
1 Athlon XP 1800+ for family (Custom with a server case + fan )
1 Athlon XP 2200+ laptop for dad (Compaq)
1 Celeron 433 MHz for family (some HP trash)
1 P2 266 MHz laptop for dad (Dell, abandoned)
1 Cyrix 166 MHz for server <--- me taking to university (too old to remember)
1 486/66 for server (some garage sale item)

 

[Nixnutz]

Mac's don't count.

I didn't think there was any other real computer.

Gots four - an Apple IIe, which still works; a PowerCenter 150 with a blown logic board and my pride and joy a Mac G3 300 upgraded to a 1Gig G4....

Oh yes...I have an Acer laptop, 600MHz Pentium 3....almost forgot about that one....

 

[Chairman Meow]

I have three. From newest to oldest:

2.4GHz Celeron, 3 HDDs: 40GB, 120GB, 600MB (out of the old computer), 256MB RAM, Runs Mandrake 9.2, Windows XP, Slackware 9.1, Fedora Core 1, FreeBSD 5.2.1, Windows 3.1. 1 year old. Nicknamed the Supercomputer.

500MHz Pentium, 8 GB HDD, 184 MB RAM, Runs Windows 2K (originally ran Windows 98). 4 years old, the computer I am currently using.

A currently non-functioning computer that is 9 years old, had 8MB RAM and ran Windows 3.1 before I removed the hard drive and placed it in the new computer. The CMOS chip is bad, so the computer is basically useless.

 

[philippe]

1 i threw the other one away

 

[toh6wy]

I technically have 6... but two of them my dad keeps basically just for nostalgia's sake, and hardly ever uses them anymore. The others are an iMac, an iBook, an eMac, and a Dell Dimension 4100. So you can count that as four.

Mac's don't count.

Excuse you. All of my Macs are personal, and - get this - computers too.

Logic 1, Turner 0

 

[WickedSmurf]

2, main one being an AMD athlon 64 3400+ with a 2x250GB hdd, other and older one being a pentium 1ghz with a mere 100GB hdd.

 

[Paasky]

5 alltogether: 1x 386 with a 10' black & white screen, 1x Dad's work-laptop, 1x Mom's PC (200 Pentium II, bought in 1996), my very own (233 Pentium II, I'm upgrading to 733 PIII soon), and the playing comp (Athlon XP 2600+).

 

[nonconformist]

5 I think-2 in here, another in the house, a couplle of laptops, and maybe some amstads in the attic.

 

[subbss]

No, it doesn't, it's not a PC.

Yes, it is. 'PC' stands for 'personal computer' not 'Windows Computers'.

Pentium II (mine)
AMD Athalon (dad's mostly)
Pentium IV (brother's)
MacOS 7.5 - not sure what processor it has (mom and me share)
MacOSX G4 (mom and me share)

 

[Godwynn]

3. My father, sister, and myself each have one. We also have a computer that is not in use right now, just sitting on the floor.

 

[Ankka]

Ok - I misunderstood the meaning of PC in this poll.

But, you must agree that when referring to "PC" it usualy means a Windows/Linux computer, not a mac.