How many working computers do you have in your house?

[dixiegrrrrl]

Not counting tablets , just desktops....

I just caught myself sending ME an email from the den computer to my living room laptop, so I could continue an article when I go into the other room, and realized how normal it seemed to do that.

The tablets, now...2 of them, one is a Nook that has recipes on it, so handy when I am cooking, and adjustable font size. Guess all those tiny print cookbooks are outdated now.

[lapfog_1]

1. 2 laptops, 1 server (rackmountable with 2 nodes and 12 3.5" drives), 1 raspberry PI, and 1 Ipad.

all of my real computers are at "work" or the cloud... 100s of systems that "I own" (reserved for my use).

[getagrip_already]

2. about 10...

Not including tablets or smart phones.

Not all of them are powered on though. Most are laptops. Probably 5 or 6 powered on and being used.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. I may have a problem...

I have three desktops, one semi-retired but working. One laptop that I use occasionally.

Two cell phones, one work, one personal, three Kindles mostly because they won't die and I have to try out the latest one when they come out.

two ipod nanos, one ipod touch.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. We have 4 laptops, used daily..

1 or more other working puters in Mr. Dixie's den, his laptop out in his tool shed/man cave in the yard, and 3 laptops here in the house,
plus I have a Nook and now a Kindle Fire.

We also have about 1500 real books, which I am in the process of thinning out to donate to the library, because the Nook has spoiled me, finally.

We think of computers as being so convenient and helpful, but when I realize how much time we spend on tinkering with them to keep them working,...
updates, charging, loading apps, replacing parts, etc..
a book does seem more appealing at times.

[Quemado]

4. Three

iMac
MacBook
Acer laptop 6 years old

[SoCalNative]

5. 4

Mac and PC laptops

[Historic NY]

6. LOL I just sent stuff from the android phone to desk top to the stick and the stick to the

laptop which I'm taking out to a meeting.

30 yrs ago it would be a pile of 35mm photos.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Several!

4 desktop
2 laptops
1 iPhone

3 of the desktops are my husband’s and one is mine.
I ‘m using my iPhone now—it’s very convenient!

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. I have a friend who just got an Apple watch

That on top of a bunch of other puter toys. She sez that lil watch can do almost everything, but she feels self-conscious talking into it in public.

[pbmus]

8. 5, 6 if you count an apple II e....

[msongs]

9. all of them are working nt

[ProfessorGAC]

10. 2

And ancient super Mac (it still works but my old sequencing and MIDI software is on there so i keep it) and an HP laptop that has a battery that last 5 minutes if not plugged in.

Then 2 android tablets. My phone is a company iPhone which i'm giving back in 73 days. My wife uses a flip phone.

Not exactly cutting edge, huh Dix?

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Whatever gets the job done, I say.

Mr. dixie has a room full of older computers, and a flip cell phone. We use the laptops he rebuilds, since they take up so little space.

A far cry from my first HP computer for $1200.00 20 years ago.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. A lot, I guess.

4 Laptops (ranging from Win7 to Win10)
1 Netbook (Win7)
1 Tower (XP... technically this one's not in use but I could hook it up and use it any time)
1 iPad
1 Amazon Fire

The latest laptop is a convertable. It's my main computer and like the previous laptop, it's hooked up with a larger monitor and keyboard. I haven't missed having a tower since I last used a floppy disk.
I always have one laptop on the dining table-- it replaces the newspapers I used to get. iPad's in the bedroom or the deck. Fire goes to the gym.

I save a lot of stuff to google drive to share between machines but anything private goes on a peripheral hard drive.

[dameatball]

12. One. Saying "Hi" on it right now!

[benld74]

14. NO desktops,

3 laptops
1 Ipad
1 Android Tablet
4 IOS phones

[better]

16. I *definitely* have a problem...

3 desktops in house, 1 in garage.
8 laptops
10 servers with a combined 108 cores, 512GB RAM and ~60TB storage

And I've got about a dozen desktops and at least 3 laptops that aren't in service!

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. only problem I see is that we don't have as many arms as an octupus.

[Codeine]

25. If we're counting non-serviceable computers

I’ve probably got a dozen in the garage, some desktops and some laptops, and four or five tablets the kids have destroyed through rough handling.

[CentralMass]

18. One work laptop (Win10), one personal laptop (Fedora28 Linux ) and

a tablet, a Chip sbc running debian linux + some IOT related hardeare4

[gibraltar72]

20. Guess I'm retarded.

[Flaleftist]

21. 2 desktops, 4 laptops

[sakabatou]

22. At least 4

[Iggo]

23. 2 desktops, 3 laptops.

[Codeine]

24. No desktops, but three laptops.

Three tablets as well, four if you count my work iPad, which I pretty much ignore when I’m home.

[hunter]

26. Oh dear, I have many Atari 800 computers in various states of "working."

And an Amiga too that was once used to make local television advertising. And an Apple IIGS. Various 68000 Macs.

Most of my Sinclair z80 computers still work.

Of course I have various Raspberry Pi. What's not to love about a $35 computer?

From there things just get stranger.

Most of the computers I've ever used, going back to the 'seventies, are emulated on my main Linux Desktop machine, but sometimes it's fun to fire up the actual hardware.

One thing I do regret giving away was the large CRT studio monitor I got with the Amiga. It was a horrible thing, built like a tank, steel case and vacuum tubes, probably weighed more than eighty pounds, and once cost more than a luxury car, but it reminded me that I was born in a time when color television was still magic.

My dad bought our first family color television at Sears on credit. I remember it took two guys to carry it out of the delivery truck and set it down in our living room, and then a tech to adjust it because early color televisions were sensitive to everything including the earth's magnetic field. Whenever you moved them, or even looked at them funny, they had to be readjusted or the colors would smear and the picture would be distorted.

I started college wanting to be a television engineer and was on that track for two years before I switched to biology. I got to be really good at repairing and adjusting CRT monitors, but wow, that's a totally useless skill today, as obsolete as any skill could be. But I still enjoy tinkering with them.

[underpants]

27. None. They just sit there and don't do s#1t

1 PC
1 IMac
Two tablets
Three cells

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. well...first of all, have you tried plugging them in?

(Laffs manically at the expense of dweeb techies everyone.)

[Polybius]

29. Counting the retro computers, 11

My main desktop PC, Apple MacBook, 2007 semi-retired laptop, Compaq Windows 98 laptop (great for DOS games), Atari 800XL, Atari Mega STE, Atari 1040 STE, Atari STacy, Atari Portfolio, Commodore 128, and Apple IIGS. Perhaps I left one out. Oh yeah, an iPad 2 if that counts.

Right now I'm looking for an Amiga, IBM XT, and Apple II.

[csziggy]

30. Three - one desktop and top laptops for traveling

The desktop is mine - hooked to two monitors, a laser printer, photo scanner (that also scans negatives up to 8x10&quot , and an Epson Workforce all in one that can scan or print up to 11x17" (actually can print up to 13x19" but I haven't found paper for that big!). It also currently has 10 TB of hard drive storage on it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

31. One desktop, one laptop.

I have a Kindle, although I don't see it as a computer. Likewise the ipod. I don't use either of those very much. My cell phone is very dumb. I can make and receive calls and texts, and that's it.

No TV.

[NJCher]

32. 9

not counting phones.

[Ron Obvious]

33. I have two houses

Each with a desktop/server and then 3 laptops

[zanana1]

34. I have one old desktop.

I'm hanging onto it with dear life.

[DFW]

35. We have about two people working the computers in our house.

More when our daughters come to visit, and they're working their own computers.........

[dixiegrrrrl]

39. I had family I have not seen in long time, come to visit.

We have computers, no smart phone, no tv.

As I was finishing dinner that first night, it got real quiet, so I took a quick look.

Both visitors were staring at their smart phones, and Mr. Dixie was looking at his computer.

I could not resist darting into my den and sending them all a "DINNER's READY!!" email.

The times certainly have changed.

[Yavin4]

36. One desktop. One Windows laptop. One Mac Book Pro. One IPad. One IPad mini.

One Samsung Galaxy S9 cell phone. One work IPhone.

Seven devices.

[sarge43]

37. 2 desktops, 3 laptops, a Kindle Fire 8 and of course 2 cell phones

Three or four dead antiques in the basement.

[Kali]

38. 2 functional desk tops running now

and another still in a box. I think one son has a functional laptop, I have 3 less than functional ones. 2 smartphones, 2 dumb phones, and 2 fire tablet thingies (one is just for streaming a radio station to the stereo since I can't pull it in via the conventional way anymore and the other for bed time reading/surfing)

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. Great minds.....

I use the Kindle Fire/Alexa to stream my bedtime music to a bluetooth speaker, since the laptop stays in the den.