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I have one floortop and one notebook. The floortop has three mobile racks. They contain two discreet OS drive. Two clones of Win 7 and three clones of 8.1.

The notebook has two SSD clones of Win 7.

All cloned drives are periodically rotated and up to date. But, basically, two machines with several OS drives.
 
2 desktops and 2 notebooks.
1. AMD Athlon XP, single core, not used much. Windows Vista and Debian XFCE
2. Xeon E5450, file server and some gaming. Windows 7, 10 and Server 2012 R2
3. HP650, 24/7 internet computer. Windows 8.1
4. HP650, test computer. Windows 8.1 and 10
 
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2 midtowers
2 T60 Lenovo laptops
1 T61 Lenovo laptop
1 HP laptop
1 bike computer

But I just 10 minutes ago pressed the power button on the midtower I use frequently (my HDTV recording/watching is done with it), and it failed to start. Gave off a pretty strong odor of burning electronics. 😱

It really is useful to have several working systems. You never know when one's going to act up, you'll have the others to fall back on and/or troubleshoot issues. I would never have just one! I use all of mine! They all have designated duties.
 
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To access this forum, I use a mechanical Wind Chime Organ, which I have shoe horned a Qwerty typewriter (keyboard) mechanism to. The Wind Chimes have been tuned to the Baud 110 frequencies, the sound board part of the organ, has got my old style carbon microphone element telephone, strapped to it, and my local Isp are happy to still support 110 Baud.
The returning 110 Baud signals are played back by my Phonograph (speaker), and I have learnt to decode them in my head (like some people do Morse code reading).

Although I am computer free. I do have a number of pets. They are all mice, and to stop them escaping, they are all cabled, to these heavy, metal rectangular boxes, which seem to make whirring noises and get hot sometimes.

One of my mice, escaped recently. It ran towards the lake right by me, and the sky was a distinctive colour. So I now call him, Sky/Lake or skylake for short. Since he has 4 legs, I usually call him Quad (4 legs), or Skylake quad for short.
The mices mother is still alive, and lives on this old bread board, so is usually called motherboard. The motherboard (mother) is very intelligent, so is also called Intel for short.

So one day I hope that the Intel Skylake Quad and motherboard, will come scurrying my way, and perform HasWell as my existing ones, or better.
 
4 PC that are on 24/7
2 laptops mainly for HTPC
3 tablets as well.

not much for a 5 person household tho.


2 beaters that i need to throw out and 2 laptops as well.
 
Ehh, I cut down to the bare minimum.

i5 with 3 monitor eyefinity setup in my home office
old phenom 2 hooked up to the home theater/projecter setup in the basement

I have a old dell server box but its mostly off all the time.
I replaced it with a cheap 4 disk home NAS which runs off of a very slow marvel CPU.

I use a crappy i5 thinkpad for work, it says i5 on it, its maybe a year or two old, but it feels like total crap compared to my ancient phenom 2 setup and my i5 2400.

Fiancee uses an A8 laptop I picked up for her to replace her old i5 laptop which had display problems and terribad integrated video acceleration and no room for a GPU.


So, 2 desktops that i own and use
1 server I used to use
1 NAS which is technically a computer that replaced the old server
and 1 work laptop which I loathe.

In the past, at one time I had 7 different desktop systems up and running with 5 of the 7 running some variant of linux or BSD... those days are gone.
 
Well I have a core i7 desktop that is my primary computer, core i7 laptop that is my desktop replacement should something happen and an atom tablet that is super portable. The tablet allows me to have all of my college eBooks in one portable package that I can carry practically anywhere with me. I'm running windows 10 on all of them and they're all synced up to my MS account to keep some commonality amongst the trio plus one drive is consistent for each of them keeping my data accessible across all platforms.
 
The 3 in my sig, one 2-core AMD laptop (which sees very little use now due to the iPhone, ) and a single-core Pentium laptop that is in permanent retirement.
 
1. The i7-860 in my sig
2. Intel 875 PBZ: previous main computer now used to scan slides/negatives and for torrents. XP - Ubuntu dual boot.
3. Sony VAIO laptop.
4. Garmin Edge 500 bicycle computer.
 
Two in my house.

Main rig is an i5 desktop used by me.
Pentium Dual core 17" laptop for the wife. We also take that if we travel anywhere.

I don't keep old computers around. I sell them or give them away rather than let them collect dust. I can only use one at a time.
 
SOFTengCOMPelec said:
None.

To access this forum, I use a mechanical Wind Chime Organ, which I have shoe horned a Qwerty typewriter (keyboard) mechanism to. The Wind Chimes have been tuned to the Baud 110 frequencies, the sound board part of the organ, has got my old style carbon microphone element telephone, strapped to it, and my local Isp are happy to still support 110 Baud.
The returning 110 Baud signals are played back by my Phonograph (speaker), and I have learnt to decode them in my head (like some people do Morse code reading).

Although I am computer free. I do have a number of pets. They are all mice, and to stop them escaping, they are all cabled, to these heavy, metal rectangular boxes, which seem to make whirring noises and get hot sometimes.

One of my mice, escaped recently. It ran towards the lake right by me, and the sky was a distinctive colour. So I now call him, Sky/Lake or skylake for short. Since he has 4 legs, I usually call him Quad (4 legs), or Skylake quad for short.
The mices mother is still alive, and lives on this old bread board, so is usually called motherboard. The motherboard (mother) is very intelligent, so is also called Intel for short.

So one day I hope that the Intel Skylake Quad and motherboard, will come scurrying my way, and perform HasWell as my existing ones, or better.
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This must be you:

funny-hipster-typewriter-glasses.jpg
 
I have 4, plus a work laptop.

Gaming rig, based on 5930K/980Ti
27" iMac, non-retina, June 2014 vintage
Mac Mini, quad core i7, for HTPC use
15" MBP retina, early 2013. This laptop I'm typing on.
Work laptop is a brand new MBPr, 15"
 
Kadarin said:
This must be you:

funny-hipster-typewriter-glasses.jpg
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Yes, you are EXACTLY right.

We used a mirror (outside of view of the picture), and took the picture, using the camera, you can see in the picture.

Fortunately I have an old fax machine which uploads the picture via the same 110 baud, phone audio device.

Although I CAN'T see pictures. I recognized the picture you posted, by its distinctive "audio chirping", when I uploaded it, many years ago.
 
Three:

- Main is an i5 3570k + GTX 970
- older dual core Asus laptop
- HP MediaSmart server (need to replace, but probably a while from now)
 
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