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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 #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Desktop = The Beast
Notebook = Lil Dawg
External HDD = Outhouse  (no, it isn't because someone in an earlier post suggested it. it's been called that for over a year)
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Mine was old the day after I bought it. So I named mine simply - OBSOLETE! Full name is (Obsolete Piece Of Junk)."

At the rate PC technology moves these days, it was obsolete the day the store put it on the shelf... so in computer terms maybe you could have named it Prehistoric. Hehe. ;p

External HDD = Outhouse (no, it isn't because someone in an earlier post suggested it. it's been called that for over a year)


I always knowed we thunk alike... that be wot I calls mine, too. ;p
Siege of Centauri
Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Interesting. I had just assumed everyone named their computers. Heck I even name all my hard drives (except for 'C'), just seem easier to keep track of everything that way. Haven't moved on to naming the rest of the equipment tho but they are all different brands so that's enough identification.
Reply #54 from Sins Forums Top
I had just assumed everyone named their computers.

I've never quite got into that. My last computer was also called "my computer". And that one was probably old at the beginning of time.
Reply #55 from Sins Forums Top
Desktop = gaming rig/ mah baby (depends on the mood)
Laptop = lappy
Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine are called "get off the damn computer or the couch will be your best friend" -pj's wife. ;p
Reply #57 from Stardock Forums Top

At the moment my tower is called The Guardian because i have the NZXT Guardian case and as it acts as the guardian for my digital music/video files