Nice collection 😁

How many computers do you own?

I have no idea 😊 Too many 🤣

not as many as that, my PC collection is relatively humble.

1996 Mitsubishi Apricot VS660 - 166Mhz @ 90Mhz Pentium/32MB EDO/Voodoo1/S3 VirgeDX/SB16/Ensoniq Soundscape
1997/8 custom Pentium Pro build - PPro 200/1mb / 64MB EDO (hopefully upgraded soon) / Voodoo2/ PCX1/Matrox Mystique / AWE64G
2000 Dell Precision 220 - dual 1Ghz PIII/ 1GB PC800 / Voodoo5500/ SBLIve 5.1 / Aureal Vortex 2
2001/2 custom Tualatin build - PIII 1400/512kb / 512MB SDRAM/Geforce3/SBLive (this is more of a spare at this point)
2006 HP XW4400 - Core2Duo E6600 / 2GB DDR2 / Radeon X1950XTX / SB X-Fi Xtrememusic
2013/14 custom modern PC - Core i5 3570k /8GB 1866Mhz DDR3 / Geforce 770 2GB / SB X-fi Titanium.

Listing them would depress me, and they're all mostly custom builds...... 🙁

My list used to be bigger, just downsizing to make room.

1991 Mitsubishi mp-286l
1995 Compaq prolinea 466 desktop
1997 Custom built abit socket 7 pentium mmx
1998 Gateway g3-333 pentium 2
1998 IBM aptiva something pentium 3
1999 Apple Powermac g3 400mhz (with voodoo 3)
1999-00 Dell optiplex gx110 tower
2000 Apple powermac g4 mystic 800mhz g4 from quicksilver
2001 Apple Imac g3 600mhz
2002 Dell dimension 8250
2004 Dell xps gen 2 pentium 4
2004 Apple ibook g4 1.33mhz
2006 Custom built pentium 4 with asrock board
2006 Dell dimension 9100
2007 HP a6118x core 2 duo
2008 Apple macbook 2.4ghz black (daily use computer)
2012 Custom built am3 asrock board
2013-2015 Main WIP computer am3+ 1045t gtx660

This is just the ready to run computers I own, Im not even going to start to count all the computers I could build with all the spare parts 🤣

People seem to have an Apple machine or two - nice to see the Quicksilver in the list, and the G3 with Voodoo isn't something you see very often.

Right now I have 3. none of witch are fully working. I hate setting up coumputers. 😒
A daul p3 system witch needs all the drivers installed, c2q system witch need drivers installed, and a newer ITX system I'm putting together for a friend (gift) witch still needs the OS installed. 😒 and the HDD installed 😒 did I ever tell you I hate the software side of setting up a PC?

I you had to toss some out of my list which would they be? I would like to trim down my collection but I'm having a difficult time. 🤣

Here are the ones that come to mind immediately though that I wouldn't mind parting with:

1987 Tandy 3000 HL
1987 IBM PS/2 Model 50z (x2)
198? Generic 386 PLC Controller Computer (In a steel black case, this unit used to run an oven)
1990 Toshiba 1200XE (286 Laptop)
1992 Apple Macintosh LC II
1994 Apple Power Macintosh 6100/66 (depending on whether or not I can get the 6200 working)
1996 IBM Aptiva Tower (x1)
1997-8 Generic 233MMX Pentium 1 PC
1999 Apple PowerMac G4 Graphite
1999 IBM Aptiva E Series 190
1999 Apple iMac Strawberry G3 333mhz (although I did just purchase the matching keyboard for it)
2000 Omnitech (Generic P3 desktop 1ghz)
2005 Dell Inspiron 6000 (My old linux laptop)

brassicGamer wrote:

People seem to have an Apple machine or two - nice to see the Quicksilver in the list, and the G3 with Voodoo isn't something you see very often.

The g4 board and case are a mystic (or gigabit eathernet) but I used a modded quick silver g4 and oveverclocked it to 800mhz. Well, more like under clocked because its a 867mhz one.

As for the voodoo 3, I wish I can flash it back to PC because there aren't too many games that i have interest in that use 3dfx. I got the card from a powermac 9600 and I don't know if it was origionally flashed for mac, and I can't find a good flash utility and ROM.

King_Corduroy wrote:

I you had to toss some out of my list which would they be? I would like to trim down my collection but I'm having a difficult time. 🤣

It doesn't take long for threads to fork around here.

The only G3 worth having IMHO is the Power Mac Server G3 - came fully loaded with SCSI-2 hard disks and is one of the last machines to boot the first version of Mac OS X Server (Rhapsody). I guess now you have the keyboard for the iMac you could get a bit more money for it. 😉 I was never a big fan of the original iMac - terrible resolution and impossible to store, but if you've got somewhere to show it off, it's a great conversation piece, especially the strawberry model (not so much the commonplace Bondi Blue). I would keep the G4 for its versatility. I nearly said get rid of the LC but I got rid of mine and kind of wish I still had it. Not that System 7 has much historical significance. It's an impossible question and you know this!!!!

Dropcik wrote:

The g4 board and case are a mystic (or gigabit eathernet) but I used a modded quick silver g4 and oveverclocked it to 800mhz. Well, more like under clocked because its a 867mhz one.

That's awesome - I've got a PSU-less Quicksilver in my garage that I could probably use to upgrade my functioning G4 Graphite. I've been wondering for years what to do about that, thanks! I literally just found out that the motherboard is the same in the last Graphite and the first Quicksilver.

Dropcik wrote:

As for the voodoo 3, I wish I can flash it back to PC because there aren't too many games that i have interest in that use 3dfx. I got the card from a powermac 9600 and I don't know if it was origionally flashed for mac, and I can't find a good flash utility and ROM.

Unreal Tournament was the only game I ever played on a Mac - didn't a nice bit of deathmatch and capture the flag at work during lunchbreaks around 2001. I've always wondered whether I could flash my Voodoo 3 to use it in the Mac, but I would only do it if the process is reversible. I'll look into it and let you know if I find anything. Might have a ROM for you if it works out.

brassicGamer wrote:

That's awesome - I've got a PSU-less Quicksilver in my garage that I could probably use to upgrade my functioning G4 Graphite. I've been wondering for years what to do about that, thanks! I literally just found out that the motherboard is the same in the last Graphite and the first Quicksilver.

Yea, that can work. Ill pm you the article I used to mod mine when I get home tonight. I had to mod the case to get the heatsink to fit, and I used a copper amd heatsink for it. I guess you can use the quicksilver one, but you will have to remove the cd and zip drive.

And to bring this topi back on track...... Its always a hard decision to get rid of any computer, But personally, laptops aren't really my style. This is probably why I have so many computers. A guy can never have too many 😀

Let's see here...

1988 Apple IIgs (ROM 01)
1993 custom built 486DX-33 tower
1995 Compaq ProLinea 5100e (P100)
1996 custom built Pentium 133 tower
2000 eMachines eMonster 600 (PIII-600)
2000 Compaq Presario 5005SR (PIII-933)
2003 custom built Athlon XP 2400+ tower (main XP rig)
2006-15 custom built Athlon 64 X2 4200+ minitower (main workshop rig)
2009 HP EliteBook 8730w (C2D T9900 3.06)
2011-15 custom built i5-2400 tower (a.k.a. my main rig)

Others:
1992 Apple Macintosh PowerBook 170
1995 Packard Bell Legend 300CD (P60)
1996 Toshiba Satellite Pro 425CDT (P100)
1997 Dell OptiPlex GXi (P200 non-MMX)
2000 Dell OptiPlex GX110 (PIII-667)
2002 IBM ThinkPad T23 (PIII-1133)

Could list a lot more here, but these are the systems that are ready to be set up. Counting all the systems I have currently in storage... I'd probably have too many to count. 🤣

Don't really know 🤣

The highest count I ever had was more then 20, but it went downhill from there.
I think I may have anything from 4 or 5 to maybe 10 at the most and several of them still work but have or developed issues (like my 486 not detecting the serial mouse anymore) which I never got around to fix as my usual way to fix a computer that developed a problem was to simply replace it with another new build 😁

Mines are all custom built (i.e. put together by myself) machines.

Retro Rigs. All are in working conditions but only bold ones are in active use:

- 386SX-16 AT (5MB, Oak 067 512KB ISA, SB16 CT1740) - Replica of my first ever PC from 1992 (waiting to score a ST157A and SB Pro II)
- 386DX-40 AT (64MB, CL 5429 2MB ISA, SB32 CT3670)
- MMX-233 AT (256MB, Asus 3DP-V3000TV 4MB PCI, SB AWE64 CT4500)
- MMX-233 ATX (256MB, 3Dfx Voodoo 3 16MB PCI, SB16 CT2230 + NEC XR895) - Main MS-DOS/Windows 3.11 PC
- Celeron 466 AT (256MB, 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP, SB AWE64 CT4380)
- PIII-733 ATX (1GB, Matrox Millennium II 12MB PCI, 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB PCI, SB AWE64 CT4520)
- PIII-1400 ATX (512MB, Nvidia Geforce2 Ultra 64MB AGP, Voodoo2 12MB x2 SLI, SB AWE64 Gold CT4640) - Main Windows 9x PC
- Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (4GB, Nvidia GTS250 1GB, SB Audigy 2 ZS SB0350) - XP Box

Modern Rigs. All active:

- Core2 Quad E9550, 4GB, Asus GTX560Ti 1GB (daily rig - Windows 7 32bit)
- Phenom II X6 1090T, 8GB Asus GT730 2GB (daughter's PC - Windows 10 64bit)
- Core2 Duo e8400 (HTPC - Windows 7 32bit)
- Asus Eee PC 1008HA (wife's netbook - Windows XP)

Other things that can compute (i.e.: connect to Internet and run applications):

- WDTV Live
- WDTV Live Hub
- Samsung Smart TV
- Digiturk Satellite box
- 2x smart phones (both belongs to my wife, one of them company property)
- My good old Nokia 5800
- Ipad II (belongs to my daughter)

We also have two laptops, both belong to companies that me and my wife are working for.

So, in total as a family, we have 11 PC's (3 relatively modern), 2 laptops, 1 netbook, 4 mobile devices, and 4 "smart" devices.

The collection here is out of hand - about 60 in total, most working, about a dozen destined for parts, and a few earmarked for immediate sale. Roughly 2/3 of them x86 architecture, the rest Z80 (Spectrum 2+), 6502 (Apple II clone), 68k (020/030/040) and Power PC (601/603/604e/G3/G4). About 1/3 are laptops so space requirements aren't too bad, and some of the big towers are off-site. Of course, that doesn't include about 5 more machines that could be built ...

King_C, that's a cool list, really nice spread of different tech. Did you include your Apple II clone? Knowing you love your PBs, I would consider ditching (by which I'm sure you mean sell or give away 😁):

1x 1984 Apple IIc (IIgs is much nicer and there is a duplicate)
1990 Apple Macintosh LC (or the LCII if you are going for the original '020 flavor of the pizza box)
1x 1987 IBM PS/2 Model 50z (if only for space considerations, if these are rare why not keep both?)
1994 Apple Power Macintosh 6100/66 (I have a soft spot for the 6100, but if you prefer the 6200CD then that's your pick)
1996 IBM Aptiva Tower (x2) (don't like Aptivas much - sold them for a while, and had one on my desk at IBM for a year)
1997-8 Generic 233MMX Pentium 1 PC
1999 Apple iMac Strawberry G3 333mhz
1999 Apple PowerMac G4 Graphite
1999 Gateway Essential 700c
1999 Dell XPS T500
1999 IBM Aptiva E Series 190
2000 Omnitech (Generic P3 desktop 1ghz)
2005 Dell Inspiron 6000 (My old linux laptop)
2006 iMac 17" 1.83ghz Education only (x2)
2008 Generic LGA 775 Intel desktop board PC

Leaves you with 26 machines to play with 😁

To pinch tayyare's term active These are the PC's I value and will keep forever.

Osborne 486 DX2 66 (families very first PC ever, close to original build)
Abit PB4 Based 486 (My mess around 486. Currently Dx4 120, but have a 586 CPU waiting to go in, not currently running)
Gateway P2 400 (My very own first PC ever, Will be taken back to stock build one day but currently stored at my parents 1/2 way round the world)
Dell Slot 1 P3 1Ghz (My mess round P3, and 2nd main retro PC, Not currently running)
Asus P2B-DS Duel P3 600 (Main retro PC, 2x CPU's x2 Voodoo 2's = x100 the fun! )
Compaq Prolient 1600 Duel P3 600 (Reto software backed up on a retro server)
Asus P4P800, P4 (Future Win98 "end of the road" PC. Still collecting parts)

I also have a Dell Latitude E5500 laptop I'm using to play around with Windows 10 and a socket 1156 PC as daily driver as well as a few other laptops, PC's, Servers that I don't really have a plan for and wouldn't be upset when they die.

Not as large as others here but I'm actually surprised how many I have!

Do Laptops etc count in on this? 😊

If they do I really have a hard time counting all of them.
For computers I am down to a humble few:
- IBM PS/2 (exact number unknown) running well
- AMD K6-2 build
- Current 3930k build I work with
- Compaq Celeron D build
- ST486DX4 IT's build
- Dual Tualatin build
- P233mhz build
- HP P4 3.0HT build
- HP Pentium Dual 2.2 build
- Unknown HP build 😢
- MP PC I5 2500k build

Notebooks and laptops is an endless list.. repaired them since I was 15-16 years old 😲
A few interesting ones:
- IBM PS/2 L40sx with 18mb ram and 40mb hdd but dead rtc battery
- Compaq Contura Aero 4/33
- Compaq Contura 400cx
- IBM 755CD 😘 🤣
- Asus G1sn
- Asus G2sg

Too many, I'm trying to restrict myself. None of them are stunningly up to date..

Retro :

Gateway p2 300 384MB, S3 Savage 4, AWE64, SB16, Voodoo 2, NIC, 80GB SSD, HxC 'floppy' drive. Retro gaming. DOS, OS/2, Linux, OpenBSD.
Dan 486 DX2-66, 20MB RAM, AWE32, 4GB SSD, Cirrus Logic 5426, floppy drive. Still being built. Retro gaming. DOS. Planned : OS/2 1.3.
Powermac 733 'digital audio' - MacOS 9, OS X leopard, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD. 1GB RAM, I think. Fastest OS 9 graphics card there is. For all the Mac games.
SGI O2, 200MHz, 640MB RAM, Irix. Disk is a small SCA drive.
SGI O2, 180MHz, NetBSD, 64MB RAM.
P3 733MHz, 256MB RAM, ISA graphics as onboard has failed. OpenBSD - firewall.
HP Touchpad, running Android.

'Modern' :

3210SHLC motherboard with Q6700, 8GB RAM, two GTX480, lots of disk, Audigy 4, USB3. Windows 8 and FreeBSD on top of Xen with hardware passthrough (main PC)
HP XW4600 motherboard with Q9300, 4GB RAM, X-Fi, 500GB SATA, HD6950. Windows 8, XP and SteamOS (gaming PC). Disappointingly slow in Crysis.
HP Proliant Gen7 with a pentium G something, 250GB disk, 2GB RAM. Not actually in use.. Takes Sandy Bridge processors.
Thinkpad X61 w/4GB RAM, 512GB disk, Audigy PC Card. Currently on Vista. May move to 7. Main laptop.
975XBX2 with E6700 or similar Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, Windows 8.1, low end Radeon. Home theatre box.
Asus Vivotab tablet, Windows 8.1. Currently lost, probably somewhere in the house. So bloody small I can't find it.

In loft :

Sparcstation 20. 40MHz CPU. Not much RAM, horrifically noisy SCSI disks. Should probably get rid of it.
P6DGS board with single Pentium III 1000MHz 100FSB, 2GB RAM.

In bits :

Cyrix MII 300MHz, motherboard and a bit of RAM. Thinking of getting rid of this.
Abit AX5 motherboard with 3GHz Northwood P4. Not a bad system, but have no spare PSU. Is it really worth spending 30 quid on a new one?

Laptops :

At least four thinkpads. Some quite old (pentium M), others very old (486, P2).

Plus a few thin client boxes, which I had been using as PCs, until the inbuilt graphics failed in one, and then it burnt out the S3 Virge I shoe horned in..

JidaiGeki wrote:

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The collection here is out of hand - about 60 in total, most working, about a dozen destined for parts, and a few earmarked for immediate sale. Roughly 2/3 of them x86 architecture, the rest Z80 (Spectrum 2+), 6502 (Apple II clone), 68k (020/030/040) and Power PC (601/603/604e/G3/G4). About 1/3 are laptops so space requirements aren't too bad, and some of the big towers are off-site. Of course, that doesn't include about 5 more machines that could be built ...

King_C, that's a cool list, really nice spread of different tech. Did you include your Apple II clone? Knowing you love your PBs, I would consider ditching (by which I'm sure you mean sell or give away 😁):

1x 1984 Apple IIc (IIgs is much nicer and there is a duplicate)
1990 Apple Macintosh LC (or the LCII if you are going for the original '020 flavor of the pizza box)
1x 1987 IBM PS/2 Model 50z (if only for space considerations, if these are rare why not keep both?)
1994 Apple Power Macintosh 6100/66 (I have a soft spot for the 6100, but if you prefer the 6200CD then that's your pick)
1996 IBM Aptiva Tower (x2) (don't like Aptivas much - sold them for a while, and had one on my desk at IBM for a year)
1997-8 Generic 233MMX Pentium 1 PC
1999 Apple iMac Strawberry G3 333mhz
1999 Apple PowerMac G4 Graphite
1999 Gateway Essential 700c
1999 Dell XPS T500
1999 IBM Aptiva E Series 190
2000 Omnitech (Generic P3 desktop 1ghz)
2005 Dell Inspiron 6000 (My old linux laptop)
2006 iMac 17" 1.83ghz Education only (x2)
2008 Generic LGA 775 Intel desktop board PC

Leaves you with 26 machines to play with 😁

Thanks for the suggestion, as cool as the clone was I ended up tossing it because 1.) It was free and 2.) It didn't function and the Eproms had been uncovered for a long time so it was way beyond my level of ability most likely. 😒 I really hated doing it but since I already own two Apple IIc computers and a IIgs there really was no reason to hold onto it.

I think I definitely agree with a lot of the things you have suggested except maybe the Dell XPS T500 (It has integrated Yamaha XM sound that is 100% SB16 compatible!) and the Gateway 700c because I want to set up a Windows 9x LAN like I had when I was a kid. 😜

The LGA 775 computer I'm going to hold onto as a backup linux machine for the time being and the Apple IIc extra I kind of want to keep too just cause they are tiny and they look cool as hell. 🤣 I think I'm going to keep the LC also but I'm going to junk the LC II, the machines are pretty much identical and iirc the LC is cosmetically in better condition.

Sun Ultra 30 Creator 3D
Sun SPARCstation 5
Dell OptiPlex GX1
Eclipse 486 VLB System
Colossus Pentium System
Acer AcerMate 386SX/20N
Toshiba T1600 (286)
Toshiba Tecra 740CDT (Pentium MMX)
Toshiba Satellite Pro SP6000 (Pentium III)
Toshiba Satellite P100 (Core Duo T2400)
Apple Power Mac G4 (Graphite)
Apple iBook G4
Apple iMac G5
Apple Mac mini (i5)
Viglen eXaro (Transmeta Crusoe)
Lenovo 3000 C100 (Pentium M)
Lenovo U410 (i5)
HP Pro (i3)
Custom Win2k3 Server (Celeron D)
Custom Win7 Gaming Machine (Core 2 Quad 9550)

Then there's all the custom systems I haven't built yet. And I'm sure I've forgotten something.

Edit: forgot Mac mini