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[livejournal.com profile] columbina is assembling his new computer this evening, so I did a quick census of all the various working and non-working computers in this home. Officially, there are two computers for every man, woman, and cat in this household, and only two of us are equipped with the opposable thumbs necessary to use the machines.

All but two of the computers (an aluminum PowerBook with a fried logic board, and [livejournal.com profile] columbina's freshly dead Win98 WinMe machine) are still functional. If you count the various PDAs in the house, we have three more "computers," all of which are also still functional -- a Palm V, some newer Palm thingy, and the Newton 2100 MessagePad you will pry from my cold, dead hands. (I don't use it anymore, but neither am I willing to let it go. It has sentimental value.)

For those of you who may have lost count, that's eight computers, plus three computer-like objects, for two humans.

I don't even want to get into what the boxes full of cables look like, but at least I think I finally dumped the AppleTalk boxes a couple of years ago.

on 2007-11-02 10:20 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] anonuum.livejournal.com
As for non-geeks, what part of the combo that makes up a PC would be called a non-working computer? (as far as I know there are no non working monitors around and probably no more than one outer shell, but it is possible to assemble couple of working ones other wise from the available parts).

The working computers - those we have 9 of (I had at first forgotten the one that just runs the network server).

The cats, though, have to be without (interestingly enough, they never sleep on the one that runs Mac - I wonder why, as the monitor does not look different from the Windows running ones that do not have flat monitors ...)

on 2007-11-02 01:37 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] anonuum.livejournal.com
This one asks for a LOLcat poster, I guess: "Just shedding in your Windows monitors here!"

(I do not have suitable images at hand, since I have discarded the illustrations to the long ago "6 ways to sleep on a monitor" entries, the only one remotely suitable can only be titled as "Thanks for preferring the Windows monitor!" At least the cat looks suitable tired from the hard shedding work - understandable, as unlike Lynx Panther does not have thick underfur)

Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/50797989@N00/271438602/)

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