Yes I do this when dealing with multiple identical or similar computers. e.g. instead of calling them "Proliant1", "Proliant2" etc. it's PEGASUS, PERSEUS, PERKELE etc. Easier to remember and reduces confusion.

Generally desktops/towers/rackmounts get the names of planets while laptops/thin clients/etc. get moons or small bodies. I'm typing this on Saturn. The two laptops that I tend use most are Quaoar and Ixion.

There are a few exceptions, like my Shuttle XPC is named Astronaut 😉 and one of my netbooks is Ada (after Ada Lovelace, although there's also a main belt asteroid with that name.)

TP-A30

Sorry, I'm boring. Even my modern machines are named after their model names (such as ThinkPad X220 ==> "X220", Lifebook AH532 ==> "AH532", etc). I got rid of my desktops a while ago, but the self-built ones were usually named after whatever northbridge chip was inside (e.g. the SE440BX-2 build was called "440BX").

EDIT: added line about the desktops.

mine are all K-something
K-WRK1
K-PC
K-SRV
K-386
🤣

VOGONG - Very Old Games On New GPU.

The machine.

One of the games.

Yes, the mobo is mATX, recycled from my home office computer. But despite the lack of expansion slots, I can put a Radeon HD 7770 on it, with Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed. Kinda overpowered for old games, but the goal is maximizing AA and AF on such games --if the games work on the first place. So it works as "test system" to find out which old games run on Cape Verde-generation GPU, and which ones do not.

What Rotel is that?

I choose places from Middleearth: The Shire, Lothlorien, Moria, Rivendell, ...

keropi wrote:

mine are all K-something K-WRK1 K-PC K-SRV K-386 LOL […]
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mine are all K-something
K-WRK1
K-PC
K-SRV
K-386
🤣

All these and yet no "K-RAD"... 🤣

In the 200X's it was a rozen scheme. "Junk" was my M919-based 586486, which is probably insulting to those who think m919 is some old school lost retro gold or something.

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keropi wrote:

mine are all K-something K-WRK1 K-PC K-SRV K-386 LOL […]
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mine are all K-something
K-WRK1
K-PC
K-SRV
K-386
🤣

All these and yet no "K-RAD"... 🤣

yeah... I'm stealing that 🤣 🤣 🤣

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What Rotel is that?

Rotel RB-985, though as of now, I'm only using 2 out of 5 channel. Anyway, its bass is very strong and punchy, but it veils the sound, reducing airiness and transparency. As such, the RB-985 is excellent for games --especially explosive games, but not-so-good for music.

I pick any name that comes to mind, nothing special or particular.

FREEBIRD - S7 Pentium 166MMX/Win95A/DOS 6.2 PC, taken from Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1973 debut album (yes, I like this song a lot 😊 )
ICENI - S370 Pentium 3 1000EB/Win98SE PC, an iron-age Celtic Briton tribe from England (and a true rebel without a cause 😏 )
MEPHISTO - Slot 1 Pentium 3 600 Katmai/Windows 2000 PC, taken from "The Mephisto Waltz" movie (my 'prime evil' music creation machine |-] )
CYGNUS-X1 - S478 Pentium 4 2.4GHz/Windows XP/Linux Mint PC, a stellar black hole in the constellation Cygnus (and I misspelled the name on purpose 😜 )
VERITAS - LGA 1155 Core i5 3350p 3.1GHz/Windows 7 PC, the Roman goddess of truth (my honest-to-goodness main PC)

Well, I usually only have ever had two computers at any given time. So I've only used two names for all of my computers. My first original 286 I had in the late 90s through - '93 was called "Kristi" because I had this massive crush on a girl in school whose name that happened to be. Yeah...creepy I know...

However, after I built my first actual PC piece by piece in '96 I've since called them all "Ivory Tower". It is of course based off of the Never Ending Story. For me at the time and I suppose now as well, that remains as one of my favorite childhood movies. But more importantly, Ivory Tower is where new worlds to explore are created and my imagination can roam within the games and projects of my computer... So ever since then, all of my primary computers have been named Ivory Tower. I do name my external drives and USB thumb drives with the names of characters from the movie as well to keep them in order, Falkor, Atreyu...etc.

I name my machines after African ethnic or linguistic groups.

Wow. Should I name my Pentium Steve?

If you want to. The name has bad juju at the moment, though, so I probably wouldn't.

I tend to just name them descriptions like XP_Machine, 98_Machine, or P90, Shagi_286, etc...

Only the machines that are connected to my home network have names:

BigBear - main PC
BigDell - DOS/Win98 machine
LittleDell - modern USFF Optiplex for general Internet access/streaming in my hobby room
MediumSizedDell - Optiplex tower shoved into a cabinet, dedicated to running MAME.
MrWoz - a 2015 iMac
PoshSpice - a 3.13GHz Opteron X2 mainly used for XP games.
SuperP3 - a turbo-charged Tualatin system
Dopefish - Surface Pro 4
Findlay - Home theater PC
DancesWithDisks - File server and router
ForestFire - HP laser printer/scanner

Mine are all named after characters from Shakespeare plays (and my wifi network is named Stratford):

benedict - main laptop
prospero - main office desktop machine
imogen - media PC
falstaff - son's bedroom desktop
lysander - old office desktop
tybalt - workshop desktop
hermione - work laptop
petruchio - old work laptop
perdita - wife's laptop
orsino - wife's old laptop
adam - IBM 5160
I also had laptops called puck and beatrice at one point, but the former broke and I gave the latter away.