How many completely functional computers do you own?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: How many completely functional computers do you own?

No parts. Whole computers. Any make, brand, model...

[NashVegas]

1. I'm Not a Geek, I'm a Packrat

Powerbook 5300CS
iMac 266 Strawberry
iMac G3 flat screen

guess which two don't get used?

[Philostopher]

2. Okay, actually it's two of us.

We have four. He's a software engineer, and we've both been upgrading the computers we had when we moved in together for the last six years. The Linux machine was a 'found computer,' and the PowerBook was a fetish object.

All right, all right -- fine. We're freakin' geeks. At least we have more pets than we have computers.

[Deja Q]

4. Well, I have more pets than computers too:

1 Senegal Parrot
6 Tiger Barbs
2 scavenger fish
4 Paradise Gourami
2 cobalt blue African Cichlids (I forgot the species name, it's C-Y-?-?-?-?-?-?-? )

Compared to:

1 Commodore Amiga 500
1 Macintosh Quadra
2 Pentium-class laptops
1 Pentium-III machine
1 Celeron 350@566 machine
3 Athlon-class machines
1 Athlon-XP class machine

so, I have more pets than computers. :D

[Philostopher]

15. Well ...

The 'completely functional' specification was what got me. We have an old Apple II around here somewhere, and between us probably have all the parts of a Commodore 64, but neither of them is assembled and working. Only the Wintel boxes, the Linux and the PowerBook can be powered up and used on demand.

Frankly, for us two old DOS/Win geeks, the PowerBook is sort of like a hybrid between a new computer and a pet. It's hard to take it seriously as a computer, I guess, mostly because of the way it looks.

[eyesroll]

3. Between the two of us, we have:

A Mac Performa 6400 (c. 1996)
A sage iMac G3 (c. 2000)
An eMachines something or other (2003)
An iBook G4 (last week)

Plus a non-functional Performa 200 from 1993, and a work-owned PC laptop that's sat in its case for the last three years.

[mlawson]

5. None. This is my office computer.

I am too cheap to buy one for myself.

[1monster]

6. Completely functional?

None. :( My CD ROM stopped working right after my extended warranty ran out and I had forgotten to renew it. And today, the paper rollers on my printer stopped working correctly.

Since my CD ROM isn't working, the only way I can add on a new printer is to either get the CD ROM fixed or buy the same kind of printer... which is probably no longer available. :( :( :cry: :cry:

[TacticalPeek]

8. You can usually dl drivers from printer site, and workaround the CDROM n/t

[1monster]

9. Thanks, maybe I'll try that...

Or maybe I'll bite the bullet and take my CPU in to have the CD ROM fixed.

I wonder if there are any repair places in the area that will do it all in one day, rather than one week.

Time to let my fingers do the walking.

[Madrone]

16. cdrom repair -

do it yourself! Seriously! It's very easy!

Buy a new one, crack your case, unplug the non-functional drive, plug the new drive in where the old one was - done!

The only thing you have to really watch for is the jumpers on the back - a little rectangular plastic thingie that fits over some metal "prongs" in the back. They are usually set to CS (cable select) by default. Look at the old one when you take it out - see what the jumper is set to, and make sure the new one has the jumpers in the same spot before you install it.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. 2 homebuilt P4 PC's. All the parts for at least 1 more and probably 2.

[slackmaster]

10. Four, all homebuilt

Main Windows 2000 box I use most of the time,

Linux box that gets fired up occasionally,

An old Windows 95 machine that used to be my main workstation, and

A Novell NetWare server running on a 20 MHz 386 that amazingly still runs fine.

[Zech Marquis]

11. 2 Mac, one Xbox

I count the Xbox since has a hard drive, video card and RAM. I don't use the very first Mac anyone, but I can drag it out and power it up :D

[Mobius]

12. Do playstations count?

I think they should. I have an Atari, Playstation 1, Super Nintendo, old Nintendo, and IBM 286, HP Pavillion (celeron processor coughcrapcouchcough) and a Texas Instrumentts calculator.They all work. Dsl modem too, I would sell my kidney before Id go back to dial up.

[Mobius]

13. u also need some better man kissing in your sig line

that guy looks like hes doent want to be kissed. Let me help you:

[The Lone Liberal]

14. You mean, “functioning“ reliably?

Saying that I can count on it not melting down at a most inopportune time? The answer is “NO!”

If you have knowledge of such a machine, please give me the name.