Naming Computers

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from JoeUser Forums

My first real computer was a COMPAQ Presario CDS 633 (a 486SX/33 with 4 MB RAM). It ran MS-DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1 at first and later OS/2 Warp 3.

I first had to name it when I ran a news (NNTP/Usenet) server on it because OS/2 didn't have an offline news reader. I liked NewsReader/2 (nr2.exe) but I couldn't figure out why IBM believed that home users would be connected to the Internet all day. That was in 1994 and I was on (expensive) dial-up.

So I named it gopher.gopher.org. The name was only relevant for news articles anyway.

The name "Gopher" travelled from computer to computer until I had two computers in 1998. The last computer named "Gopher", a 1997 Pentium 200 running OS/2 Warp 4 is still in use by my dad for Microsoft Word 5.5 (which ran natively on OS/2!).

Starting then the slower computer would be "Cassidy" and the faster computer "Sundance". In 2001 my Power Mac G4/450x2 (dual processor) was Sundance and my UMAX S900 PowerPC 604e/233 was "Cassidy". And in the kitchen I had a server that was connected via cable going through a hole in the wall. It was named "Holeinthewall". The two clients connected to it I named the "Holeinthewall Gang". :-)

I bought an iBook G3/600 which I named "Flyer". It is still with me, although the hard disk is broken.

In 2004, after I had moved to Ireland again, I bought an iMac G5 and named it "Hokem" (Hebrew for "wise man" and Yiddish for "wiseguy"). Two years later I bought an Intel Core 2 Duo iMac and named it "Xerxes" after the Iranian king.

And this year I finally added a new (white) Macbook named "Blacky".

I have three external hard disks: one 160 GB called "Databank", one 500 GB called "Opposition", and one that was made in Ireland (by Iomega); it is sort of metallic coloured and I use it for Apple's "Time Machine" backup application, I called it "DeLorean".

My HP PDA is named "Smallpox" (because it is is small, fits in my pocket, and is as useful as a disease).

My iPod Shuffle is named "Shuffeln".

And my iPhone, which was very difficult to register because of how iTunes works in Europe, is named "iCantbelieveit".

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

How do you name your computers?

 

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You might want to change that to "Naming Gadgets" seeing you're talking about phones and ipods too ;p
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I call mine 'you effing pile of useless excrement'....but only when it's being recalcitrant...;)
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Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

I am so unimaginative!  I name mine after my Birth sign.  I am on interation 7.  The rest of the computers are named for whose they are.  My sons', my wife's, etc.  The one I gave my children was named da-da-da.......TheKids.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I call mine 'you effing pile of useless excrement'....but only when it's being recalcitrant...

And what's it called when it's actually working? :LOL:

I don't call my rig anything specific, but it usually varies between swear words and "Oh My God, I didn't know you could do that!" and sometimes "Work you stupid thing, work!"
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

I am so unimaginative!

Get it? Sundance, Cassidy, Holeinthewall? :)

 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Never named any of mine....they aren't living creatures....they're creatures that soak up my living! ;)
Maybe I'll call them Sponge1, Sponge2...etc. They can have a webpage of their own...you guessed it: Para-site. ;p

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I call mine Solitaire! :LOL:
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I call mine My Computer and sometimes I call it
you effing pile of useless excrement


Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

Never named any of mine....they aren't living creatures....

Names are not used to identify living creatures but to identify things one might want to address.

Wild animals do not have names.

But pet animals, people, and computers do.

 

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wild animals do not have names.


someone always has a name for that big ass fish nobody can catch.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top

someone always has a name for that big ass fish nobody can catch.

Also to address or refer to the fish and not because it's alive.

 

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Main Rig... Cap'n Blackbeard... cos it's black.

2nd rig... Master Bates... cos it was a 'wanker' to build/get to work right.

3rd rig... Seaman Staines... cos at one point it mother spilled her tea on it.

Wife's rig... Lady Pirate... cos it has lots o' girlie stuff on it. ;p
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I am so unimaginative!
   You think that unimaginative, I call mine computer. when its running good and I use some of Jafo's wording when it isn't. ;) 
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

Get it? Sundance, Cassidy, Holeinthewall?

Yes, and I like it.  But I was not so creative. ;)

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hmm... mine doesn't have a name.

Although on occasion I do talk to it. Usually to tell it i'm going to throw it out the effin window. I tell my 3 phones that alot more often though.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I call mine 'you effing pile of useless excrement'....but only when it's being recalcitrant


Right on Jafo. Wonderfuly said.
Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top
Mine is called Amber after Zelazny's novels Nine Princes of Amber series.....
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Names are not used to identify living creatures but to identify things one might want to address.

Wild animals do not have names.

But pet animals, people, and computers do.


LOL....I have lotsa names for wild creatures....Just never thought to name a computer...if I did, HAL2
might be a serious competitor! ;)
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine is named Mystique because it was the case model.

The laptop is called Apollo, from Battlestar Galactica (my network is actually called Galactica).

I didn't really "name" the computers til I got this new case, then it just seemed appropriate. My first computer was a Compaq Presario in 1999. Much like Jafo, I got fed up with how crappy it was, so I took a black Sharpie, scribbled out "Presario" on the front of the case and replaced it with "POS" which then became the computer's official name. :-"
Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top
my dad names all the computers in the family basicly and he names them after clasical composers so i think im on sibalius i dont know what im going to call mine when i start nameing them though probs nicknames ive used over the years or just use a name generator or pubs.
Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top
I call mine "my computer".

And the occasional swear word of course.
Reply #24 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
my computers are named goddess and are as fickle as female gods can be!!!
Reply #25 from Stardock Forums Top

I called all my computers Pokey after the children's story The Pokey Little Puppy.  Now I have an iMac.  I call it Mac.