How many computers have you had?

[Versus]

I would like to add that I actually built two identical computers of my current one, but one was for my brother.

[rumsfald]

8.

I'm gonna skip the ti/99 and the c-64 that family bought me, and the 286/sx, 386/dx, 486 that family had that I would bogart (not humphrey on wikipedia). Or my roommates's cpus in college that i would bogart.  Also gonna skip laptops that don't game (sony VAIO p125, fujitsui crusoe 800, ibook g4).

1) Fiancee moved in and brought her Packard Bell p75. Played GTA.

2) Imac Rev B bought new.  I installed the Voodoo2 and ram into that. Played Quake 3.

3) Gave some dude $100 bucks for a Cyrix 233 modded with a Voodoo 3. Played Diablo II.

4) ~2000 first ground-up build. Duron 600, GeForce2mx.  Played CS, Natural Selection, DoD, DAoC. This is currently the spousal unit's PC.  Had a MS Natural Pro keyboard that i transferred to my main that *just* died.

5) picked a PII HP out of the trash and added scrub parts to use as a backup winamp / CS box. i got sick of it in 6 months after I failed at debian and slackware. Sucked playing HL.

6) traded rusty golf clubs to my professor for a Macintosh SE cause I thought retro macs were cool.  I lost that trade, the SE was so obsolete. Played solitaire.

7) harvested a HP out of my mom's attic.  It was an AMD T-Bird 1.1 that my step-brother blew out the PS. Had a GeForce in it (128mb i think) and a SB Live (still use that card in my current sys).  I transplanted a PS for a bit, played CS for a bit but the mobo and vid card died soon.

8 ) in preparation for Doom3, I built my second ground-up PC.  Athlon 2800+, ATI 9800pro, 1 gig mem. Even though Doom3 came and went like a cheap date, I have been playing on this since. It's my TF2 gaming rig. Just replaced the keyboard with a ms natural ergo 4k.

[cannedpeahes]

Old Celeron from '98 or '99. Used to play the Sims on it, until I realized it was too slow for Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

I started playing that on the desktop my dad had at the time, A (1.6GHz?) P3, with an absolutely incongruously good video card, like a Rage 3D or something.

Then, my dad splurged and bought us an HP, P4 at 2.6GHz with a 120GB hard drive and a nVidia GeForce MX440. Upgraded that to an FX5200. Let that get to the point where it lagged behind.

Then, splurged on my 16th birthday and bought a new system for $800. 250GB Seagate, 2.66GHz Athlon 64+ 3800, 1GB RAM, Geforce 7900GT. Enough to play what was current at the time. Unfortunately, the OEM videocard failed and I let the machine stagnate until Christmas of that year, when I bought an Radeon X1950. Played that for a couple of months until the hard drive started having problems (I forgot to secure it on both sides). The drive failed in April, I had it refurbished, and have been using that since.

I'm currently typing this on an XPS M1530 I got for graduation. Plus, my dad has a Toshiba satellite. That makes... six. I'm planning a pretty substantial update for early August, and I think the degree to which I'm updating (everything but the video card) will constitute a new computer.

[Versus]

If we're counting parents' computers, my count would be well over 9

[copulatingduck]

1. My first comp, around age 5: some 486 that I played Apogee demos and Reader Rabbit on.
2. Had it for elementary school basically: some local computer store built Pentium 1 w/ Windows 95. Used it to go on AOL.
3. Middle school and 1 year of HS: A piece of shit HP w/ a P3 500mhz that couldn't run CS1.3. Had to upgrade it with a GeForce4 MX 440. Hated this one so badly.
4. Since Sophomore year of high school (that's 4 years ago): my current beast that I built, at the time, for ~$1000
5. TBA 2011

Reader Rabbit was the shit! I played that on my parents computer all the time. 8)

[ScottyGrayskull]

Oh! Forgot about my Vic20! Don't even know if it works, because my tv doesn't have the hookups and/or I'm missing the video cables, but it definitely powers on!

Really want to get rid of it though. Shame it'd cost a lot to ship anywhere...

[Ceceil Felias]

A ridiculous number.

In my current possession are eight already. One's an old Amiga CD32 attachment, sure, but it counts, especially since I still have the CD32 itself somewhere.

Okay, let's see here... I'm assuming family computers don't count, so I'll leave them out.

1. Old Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT. Pentium 1, ancient, I don't even remember what its specs were because that was a secondhand in my childhood.
2. Old secondhand Compucare computer, AMD Athlon 1000MHz with 256MBs of DDR-200 RAM and a 40GB harddrive. Given to me by my brother, who had upgraded to an Inspiron laptop that, despite its famous reliability issues, survives to this day.
3. Older Dell Optiplex, Pentium 3 500 and 512MBs of RAM with a SCSI card in it -- cared little for, never really used, and ended up giving it to my mom after her older still Optiplex ended up failing critically. Eventually failed itself, as the secondary ATA controller broke and rendered it difficult to effectively use.
* 4. Dell Latitude CPi R400GT, dug up from a box at work. Pentium 2-400, 256MBs of RAM, 5GB harddrive, no battery -- all of the ones at work were dead dead dead. While it worked as my laptop through high school, in its current state it'll probably become a fancy terminal for my server box and whatever remote operations I set up.
5. Handbuilt computer made with the $200 my father gave me for christmas. AMD Sempron 2600+, socket 732, and 512MBs of DDR-400 RAM. 80GB harddrive.
* 6. Toshiba Portégé 7220CTe, given to me by my stepdad after the move on April '07. Pentium 3-650, 192MBs of RAM, 12GB harddrive, and a working battery! Well, sort of. I got a REAL working battery shortly afterwards, and it remains my current laptop to this day. It's frustratingly slow at times, but oh-so-lovable regardless. It was the subject of a drive test I did after removing my Zen Touch's 40GB 1.8" drive and hooked it up. The drive was a bust, though.
7. Massive overhaul of the handbuilt, with an Athlon 64 3200+, 2GBs of DDR-400 RAM, new drives (two 160GBs in RAID 0 and a 250GB), etc. Intended to get a dedicated video card, but the first one was DOA and the system had a critical failure after the power supply cooked the motherboard.
* 8. Extremely hasty rebuild of the overhaul. New motherboard and PSU, Athlon 64 X2 4200+, GeForce 8500GT, and the same hardware otherwise. Modified over time, given an 8600GTS for a while, but after I split my systems, it became my everyday computer, with an 8400GS replacing the cards and the old 80GB drive replacing the 160GBs.
* 9. Server Box. Salvaged from my father's backyard and with a lot of spare parts taken from its brothers. Since California was so dry, it worked surprisingly well. Dual Pentium-3 800s, 512MBs of RAM with plans to expand to 1GB. Harddrives are currently in limbo, but at the moment it has a 20GB IDE and a 20GB SCSI set up in it. Extremely budgeted system, however -- it has no PCI-X.
* 10. Gaming computer. Built with money loaned from a friend, though my financial situation went straight to hell afterwards and I still haven't been able to pay him back. AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+, 2GBs of DDR2-800 RAM, the 160GBs from the old system, and dual 8600GTSes in SLI. Planning on reconsolidating and making a majority of this hardware part of my main system, while my brother gets the older parts.
* 11. Spare junk computer 1. Pentium-3 1000, I think. I forget the RAM. Intending to sell this one after fixing it up and putting Linux on it.
* 12. Spare junk computer 2. Pentium-3 800, I think. Also forgot the RAM. Same deal.
* 13 (Honorable mention 1). Amiga CD32 with SX-1 attachment. I plan on putting this together for legacy purposes when my desk has the setup and uber-hutch available for it.
14 (Honorable mention 2). Commodore 128. Blah blah blah legacy purposes etc.

[Luca Shoal]

2 of the computers I've used were family ones, so...I'm counting them.

early to mid 90's, like..93 I think - A Commodore 64 with Winter Games, and some other stuff. Word processing to.

late 90's/early 2000 - Some custom build my cousin made for us with Windows 98 or 2000, I forget. Probably 2000. I played through HL:2 on the thing at low graphics, and I paid for half the game with all my Pokeyman cards. Good times.

2005 or so - Current computer, built with the help of my cousin. Used to have a GeForce 6600 which I recently replaced.

Pentium 4
3 Gb RAM
3 HDD's of 80, 120, and 500 Gb respectively. The 120 is an ass tho and I need to replace it. The 80 Gb one came from the last computer. Still removable.
Nvidia GeForce 8800

[IdiotWithGuns]

I think i beat every one of you guys.

I just sat for 2 min and tried to figure out how many pcs went trough me.  Must be over 30.  I am constantly changing rigs.  Some i sold, but never bought. 
My very first pc was ....soo hard to remember... Packard bell i belive it was 25 mhz with 8 megs of ram with... i want to say 1.2 gigdrive.  HAHAH i remember buying a ram chip for it.  I think i paid 320$ for an 8 meg chip.  (tells you just how old i am)

I have 5 boxes running right now (not including  ps3)

The best box

ASUS P5K-E LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard 
MSI RX2600XT Diamond Plus Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR4 PCI Express x16 HDCP 
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor
4 Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 7200 RPM SATA-300 Hard Drive 
4 OCZ Reaper HPC 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit


Not so best box

ECS P4M800PRO-M V 2.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Nvidia 6800XT 256mb Video Card
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz LGA 775 Dual-Core Processor
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 7200 RPM SATA-300 
1 GB Patriot DDR PC3200 RAM Dual Channel Kit 

A server which is hosting BRBu! Mod nights.
HP DL380 G4 with dual 1.4 Xeon chips
2.25 GB ECC HP ram
6 SCSI 15k rpm drives 2x36.6(OS) 2x72(data) 2x72(data)

Let not forget one of my new laptops.

ASUS F8 Series F8Sp-X1 Intel Core 2 Duo T5750(2.00GHz)
14" Wide XGA
3GB Memory 250GB HDD DVD Super Multi
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Most of the machines i have build myself.

[Versus]

Let not forget one of my new laptops.

ASUS F8 Series F8Sp-X1 Intel Core 2 Duo T5750(2.00GHz)
14" Wide XGA
3GB Memory 250GB HDD DVD Super Multi
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

That's exactly the laptop I have.