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Well without any originality, I used to name my computers from the name of the user.
Recently, I changed a bit to give them more original names.
Therefore, my brother's computer is called TARDIS, my GF's computer is named from her favourite pop star, and my next one, Unimatrix
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When my brother bought me a new computer for Christams last year (one we assembled ourselves, of course), the case and motherboard arrvied one day and we found out the rest would be arriving the following Tuesday. I had no choice! I had to name the system the Enterprise-B. But then I got a little carried away. Observe...
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Hehehe. May I interest you in my Atari 800 PC?
Anyhoo, just some random thoughts...
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I did indeed name my computers, I started doing that when I aqcuired more than 1 machine.
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Main system: Buddy
Old system: Junkpile
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My primary Hard Drive is Adam, my secondary Eve. Oddly enough, not from the Bible but from a super-hero game I ran.
I once knew a girl who had a red Camero named Pol Phot.
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I most often call it:
!@# $%^& *!@#$ %^ &*!@
Sorry, I know there are children present on occasion.
Steven "redwood973" Wood
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My home machine is named Marvin (after the 'bot in Hitchhiker's), but what I actually call it is unprintable...
"If it ain't the Devil's music, you ain't doin' it right" -- Chris Thomas King
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::Sigh::Originally posted by AslanC
I once knew a girl who had a red Camero named Pol Phot.
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"Mine"...no really.
Phoenix...
"I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity,
but maybe we should just remove all the safety lables and let nature take it's course"
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I thought it was rather clever of her actuallyOriginally posted by Phantom
::Sigh::
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Clever, yes. But, still a bad pun.Originally posted by AslanC
I thought it was rather clever of her actually
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Yeah but when she told me I almostbusted a gut laughingOriginally posted by Phantom
Clever, yes. But, still a bad pun.
Not many people get it either... C'est la vie
Back on topic for a moment...
I used to call my CD writer Cain and my Zip drive Able.
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Phoenix, do you also call it "My precious" and stroke it lovingly? Your computer that is
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Heh. Actually, the Atari sticker came from Unreal 2004. Seemed approriate to slap it on the system...Originally posted by REG
Hehehe. May I interest you in my Atari 800 PC?
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"Doug, at the keyboard, his fingers bleeding" (with thanks to Moriarti)
In D&D3E, Abyssal is not the language of evil vacuum cleaners.
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Hey Doug. What kind of box is that. I don't think I've ever seen a PC box like that before.
And I couldn't imagine naming my PC
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