How Personal Is Your Computer?

Im just wondering... how many of you out there take your computer as a "someone" instead of a "something"? or maybe in the middle..

As for me.. well. first of all.. let me introduce you all to Jenny.. my FIRST computer.. a comaq presario.. 500Mhz P3, 96MB RAM, 12GB HDD with onboard Video and Sound card and internal 56K Modem.. sure she's something u would find in an ordniary shop.. thats how she came to me at first.. i swear i was soooo excited.. technically.. Jenny isnt mine.. she's my dad's computer but I am the one who put the hard work on her.. fixed her when something goes wrong (even stay up all night doing repairs).. give her everything she needs and even things she doesnt really need.

For more than 2 years.. ive been slaving over this box... and its been like a part of me already.. recently.. 3 weeks ago.. the monitor's power supply went dead.. and i had to turn the monitor in to the technicians for the repairs.. 3 weeks.. no Jenny.. it was like hell for me.. as if everything changed..

And dont take me wrong, i do have i life.. and a girlfriend (angelic_ky) :P
everyday i work on my assessments with Jenny and talk with angelic_ky on the phone during my breaks.. weekends and wednesdays im at angelic_ky's place or we go out somewhere.. i even took her out for lunch recently on a Saturday. but yeah.. 75% of my time is spent on this box... games.. works.. repairs.. upgrades.. Ive seen other boxes.. way faster and has way more memory than Jenny has.. but still doesnt feel thesame.. i feel more comfortable using Jenny than ANY other box..

and oh btw, my monitor is still not fixed.. the shop gave me a temporary replacement. some how its been 3 weeks now and they keep telling me the parts they ordered havent arrived yet. i mean.. WHERE ARE THEY ORDERING THESE PARTS FROM?? MARS???!

anyway.. so to u out there.. tell me your story.

OK, my first computer was a VIC-20. For those of you who don't know, the 20 stood for 20K of RAM. I played games written in BASIC loaded from a tape drive (a floppy disk was space-age technology to me) which took 10 minutes to find, and another 20 minutes to load. Some games I could even plug in to the back of the keyboard (which also happened to be the CPU...), just like Nintendo games now. This computer had absolutely no useful purpose and had been broken for 5 years when my mother threw it out at the age of 16. I cried.:bawling:
Yes, I name my computers. This post is being typed on Suzanne. Suzanne acts as a server for Ashley and Platypus (I didn't think of that one...). My computer, in its own voice, welcomes me to it every day. Although I must admit, I have a much stronger bond with my car... she even bitches at me when she doesn't want to start in the morning. :rolleyes:

lol yeah.. sweet.. i have friends runnin Win2K and XP and even Red Hat who are envy to death with my Win98 box.. they couldnt believe how modified Jenny is.. she has voice too.. i made it from a program which speaks the words i type in it.. and i just save em as wav files and played around with the Sound Settings and made Jenny talk on almost every event. she even says "Security Alert!" everytime someone tries to break through my DMZ.. and "Security Breached!" when someone actually got through.. lol
"Computer Virus Detected!" when my AV picks up something.. etc etc bla bla bla

she almost has AI..

YOU guys crack me up. Well here goes nothing. No I dont name my systems but I do have a slight bond.
My first system I still remember the configuration. 300Mhz PII, 64Mb ram, 8.4Gb Hd, 8MB Intel Vid Card, 56 Lucent WinModem, Windows 98. When I first got it, like most people out there I was clueless about the true power of PC's, mostly I played games. Nevertheless, after a few month little by little I was being sucked into the world of computer addiction, world of neverending nights in front of a pc, fighting off script kiddies and .....
I no longer have the system, it served me for 3years, and went through so much **** I was surprised it still worked when I sold it. Now I have 3 systems. My main system overclocked AMD XP 1600+ ( running at 1800+ speed). 256ddr ram 60gb hd ide, 9.1gb scsi and couple other neat devices. 2nd machine is stripped and tweaked dell system, and 3rd is my *nix baby, 233Mhz w/ 256mb ram. I also have a 4th system on stand by to be built. Overclocked 750 duron (@ 825Mhz) 512Mb ram Asus Mobo :) good stuff. Maybe I will name my main system I dunno but I dont get too personal. I tend to yell at my systems, cause a lot of times I overload them and it freezes for a couple of seconds so i get mad.. u get the point. But nevertheless I love my babies. Of course pc's cant replace a girlfriend and no I dont spend more time with my systems then I do with my girl.

Yup I do feel the same way as u feel sonic. My comp is 650Mhz, 128 RAM with built in sound card and and graphic. And yes, when I'm not with my box for a day, I feel my life so dull. Needless to say I spend minimum 5 hours when I'm awake. And of course I had doing everything I can to fulfill my box wished and she never wished.lol. But yes Comp is everything for me. I believe all of AO member addict to comp. Am I??

My first was a Commodore 64. I got it before I could even read, so all I did was play games for years.. then in the 4th grade, I took a class on BASIC and I haven't been heard from since. Since then I've had a 75mhz pentium, 200 mhz pentium 2, 550 Mhz k6 2, and finally a Duron 950. I dont really have a bond with any of my computers. I am a hardware guy, so hardware comes and goes. I have more of a bond with the things I make, Artwork, programs, movies, game models/skins/modifications. I have a paranoid thing about losing data, I keep a backup harddrive which, once a month, I hook up to my computer and transfer data for backup. that way, I never lose more than a month's worth of data.

Yes, I name my computers, primarily because they are on a network. However, I name them after my real pets. This only refers to my home systems because my work system is for work, isn't mine and therefore doesn't deserve that type of affection. We have a working relationship.

My computer is Whitney (named for my precious Buff Cocker Spaniel who died of cancer) and is a P-IV 1.5 GHz, 512 Meg RDRAM (800), Geforce 2 GTX 32 meg video (Geforce 3 ti 200 on the way), Creative Labs Audigy Pro sound card, two 40 GB HP EIDE Hard Drives (removeable for different OS's), DVD player. My wife's computer is Shasta (named for my loving Springer Spaniel) and is a P-III 800, 256 MB PC-133 RAM, ATI 7200 All-In-Wonder Video Card, Sound Blaster 16, 20 GB and 10 GB hard drives, DVD Player, and CD-RW.

The computers are networked together with Whitney controlling the two printers and Shasta controlling the CD-RW. They share a DSL connection which is connected through a Linksys DSL/Cable router and switch. In a reversal from real life Shasta plays almost no games while Whitney is my game machine and enjoys Counter Strike but mostly (addictively) Anarchy Online.

BTW My first computer was a 286 which I finally gave to my son after it had been repeatedly updated to a Pentium MMX 200 MHz. Three years after purchasing it I realized that when I replaced the floppy I had finally replaced the last piece of original hardware initially purchased. So that computer was never thrown away it was upgraded out of existence.

The first computer, or computers that i became attached to i named Jim, Bob and Carol. Jim and Bob are to p100's made by AST Bob has 32 Mb or RAM and Jim has 24Mb. Carol was my dad's work provided lap top (p133). We came in to there custody because AST were going to throw them out and replace them with p300's i think. So my dad said how about 50 for each of them.

When we got them back i formatted Bob and spent a whole weekend getting it to work properly (AST had put too much inside and there were conflicts everywhere) Jim i didn't format, but spent a while sorting him out, and Carol i sorted out at a later date. The main things that these three are used for now is networking old games like doom 2 via a litlle 8 port hub.

I now have Max, he is an athlon 900 256 Mb of RAM, an old GeForce 2 graphics card and Soundblaster live card with 5.1 surround sound. I have formatted him to or three times in the 2 years that i have had him and once he was even inconsiderate enough to blow his motherboard but fortunately the warranty covered it. I plan to do a respray on him soon and to cut some holes in the side casing and cover it with wire mesh so that he looks really mean.

For the future i plan to network them all together. Also my dad has just bought himself a new computer off e-bay that is in the 1Gig reigon somewhere, so i can't wait to get back home from uni to check it out.

The funny thing is that even though a lot of them have blokes names, i always call them good or bad girls...

i name my computers..

my current computer is called BOB, my server is called SERVERBOB, its kinda started as a joke but its just something i do now :) sometimes my computer gets called other names..but think we all do that from time to time ;)

<gasp> computer?!

mother....teacher....seceret lover....

jk :)

i know how you feel, i built my current machine about 10 months ago, a 1.4ghz athlon with a msi k7n420pro mobo. i've yet to name her, i can't seem to find anything appropriate for her (suggestions are welcome). there's a picture of her in the "uploaded files" part of my profile.

nah I don't name my computers either, but I do remember them all and have fond memories of them.

My first was a Trash 80 ... I wonder who else knows what that is.

Then a big ole whopping Apple II e with 64k ram, 2 5 1/4" drives and no internal hard drive in the beginning. I upgraded that to a 1 MB Hard drive and I knew I was uber then :)

sigh, I've had many machines since then, but I think the most fun I ever had was with the II e. I taught myself Logo and Apple Basic. I learned to "hack" then too. ah, was fun times.





El Diablo

I was a little kid when I got my windows95 also known as "WINDY". I didn't name it intil a friend started fooling around with IRC bots.... thats when I got the idea of nameing my PC. After I named it I gave it some cooler sounds, added better background, changed the icons, then changed some of the .sys files in win95 so that when it shutsdown it says goodbye instead of the text that says its now safe to turn off your pc.

I plan on maybe painting it soon. :)

I don't name my computer but i do remmeber my fisrt computer was an Apple IIc that is used to play the fabulous "Conan" them i've got my x286 with out a hd nad i had a bunch of 5 1/4 Floppies around the house that was a pain in the a** loading wordperfect with two floppies and things like that. But also I stioll remmember my first game console ZX spectrum manufactured by sinclair i think with tapes that probably you start loading the game go out for a lunch with family come back take a nap and them hopefully the game was ready to be play...
(sight) those times..
:)

My 3rd computer was a Trash80 named MOE, the first and only PC that I had ever named. I started naming file servers at work mainly to get the goat of someone that worked there. We had a lady there that named our AS/400 GUS and the file server that resided in the same area Gertrude.

When we upgraded that server 3 years ago to a Binford 6000 (tm) grunt grunt grunt I was in a position of more authority and named the server "7 of 9". I don't think Mary ever understood that name and that made the joke even better.

well my computers (2 of them) don't have names yet, but i seem to have an unusual attachment to my linux / win '98 box, it started as a P75 with 8 meg ram and win 3.11 / dos 6.22, costing the olds the princely sum of almost 3000 bucks, it is now a cyrix 333 running 98 and redhat 7.1

i want to get a new computer and sell it but ive had it for what would almost be 6 years and i just can't bear to part with the thing as i learnt how do do lots of things with this box ie. upgrades etc

i have never thought of my computers as entities, extentions of myself but never stand alone.

has enyone seen the ikea commercials on tv? Do you feel sorry for the little pitcher?...that is because you are crazy. it can be replaced and the new one is much better.

i still have my first computer a trs-8086, then an apple512 an ibm at with 2 (yes count them, 2) 5 1/4" floppies. yes life was good! started making my own when parts became standerdized, starting with an intel 80386-20 4meg with an 80387 co-processor which became a caldera linux box loaded from floppies obtained from a cd in the back of a 'mastering linux' book when i finnaly accuired all the parts for my p233 after that it all gets a bit fuzzy.

I couldn't live without my computer, it's my baby, I spend a ton of time on her. Honestly I look at her as a really expensive jukebox. I remember my first baby (not as old as some that I've seen). PII 300, 64 MB of RAM, 8 MB video card, 56k modem, 6.4 gig HD. It was awesome, it was my first experience with a PC. I had her for about 3 years and finally built another one - Duron 900, 256 MB of RAM, GeForce 2 MX400 64MB, Soundblaster Live! 5.1, 20 gig HD. That one was fried by lightning :(, lot of money wasted :( . Then it was time to rock out the big one. The current config is:

Dual Boot - Windows XP/Red Hat 8.0
Athlon XP 1700+
512 MB DDR
Soundblaster Audigy
GeForce 4 Ti4200 (Overclocked to 4400 speed)
Davicom 10/100/1000 NIC
40 GB 7200 RPM HD (OS'es, games, and programs)
80 GB 7200 RPM HD (All my music, movies, and pr0n)
52x CD-ROM
40x12x48 CD-RW

I think if I lost my PC it would be like losing a dear friend, I have learned a lot on it - more that school has ever taught me. It is my livelihood (I'm a PC technician), and I treat my customers computers the same way.

My main box is known as inferno, that is an upgraded name as slag was what I called it for a while, before that it was known as Sal9000Elite. My laptop is known as smolder. I have a web server called newton, another web server is known as Tesla, Rasputin is my Silicon Graphics Indy workstation, einstein is my authentication/database server, edison is my mail server, freud is DNS, Frankenstien is a backup for Tesla, Igor is my workstation for remote administration.

Einstien - Compaq Proliant 6500R Quad Pentium Pro 200mhz 1 gb ram RAID 5
Edison - Compaq Proliant 2500R dual Pentium Pro 200mhz 512 mb ram RAID 5
Tesla - Same as Edison RAID 5
Freud - Compaq Proliant 2500 also like Edison only it is in a tower RAID 5
Frankenstien - Same as Freud
Igor - Soyo 950mhz Duron, Plextor 16x CDRW, 40gb hd, 512mb ram
Inferno - is a custom built box in a full tower, dual hot swap 350w pwr supplies, Gigabyte Mobo with dual bios, Athlon TB 1000, 780mb ram, SB Live, TNT2 32 mb video, HP 16x cdrw, 30 and 20 gb hard drives, in hot swap bays for mutiple OSs.
Smolder - is A Compaq Armada P233mhz 128mb ram.
Rasputin - SG Indy with 8 MIPS processors each at 250mhz (not positive) 256mb ram, with a high definition 21" monitor

I am sure I left a few out...

P.S. my first computer was a Radio Shack model IV with dual 8" floppies and a 10 mb hard drive. Retailed at over $9000.00, freaking expensive boat anchor (this is just the hard drive) the comp was another 6500 bucks!

/me is starting to feel old... hmmmm

:p



Yeah Mine is called The Thing ! sometimes the Thinggy !!! but whenever it crashes, I call it


:eek:

F^Y$£%^£ !!!


paladin

My computer - he is Genius.He is a P111 866Mhz man.Its bcoz of him that i never realize there are 24hrs in a day.He is my real friend.I do all sorts of things with him.He sings sweet.He runs my favorite and powerful FreeBSD.I cannot think o9f a day without him now.I have a really personal relationship with him.

I've named my three computers these: Dellio, Hewbert, and Prometheius.

My old pc's just called Atlantic, because it was built by a company called Atlantic, Dads pc I called thecraptinypc, because thats what it is :-)(I should watch what I am typing I am on the tiny now!) and my new one I called the Godfather. All of them need better names, I really should think about giving them one.
Although I have always just called them all girl in the past.
I could'nt live without my pc's. I would dread to throw away the Atlantic, because it was the pc I learnt most my stuff on. Its a part of me now.
/me is sad!

My first comp was an Apple IIe. I had no name for her, but learned how to program on her and then i stepped into the wonderful world of computergames, (Ive never left that world either) We had that comp for many years till the 386 came out :) I got my 386 for graduation from highschool. It had a wonder 9600 baud modem, 88meg hd and 12 megs of ram. It even had a color monitor...LOL....Over the years, ive had several other computers, but now I have 2. I have Voodoo, a RH7.1 box that is a cyrix 200 with 50 megs of ram and 4gig of hd space. I also have kryptonite....my baby......a p4-1.6 gig with 32 meg video, 512 ddr ram, 30gig hd and runs xp. I spend an average of 10 hrs a day on the comp, both home and work combined. I am startint to build a new system named Brandy. She will be a dual processor with at least a gig of ram and a 128 meg video and at least 120gig hd all in a koolance, liquid cooled case.

I have never named a comp,but there IS one that is very dear to me.It is my first laptop,a Sceptre 5000T.It has a 233 Pentium processor with 32megs of RAM,and ran on Windows 98.I don't use it anymore as the LCD screen went(It still works though).The reason it was so special to me though,is because I bought it with my first ever loan!