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digmen1
02-03-2007, 10:05 PM
Hi Guys

I have been into PCs since the mid 80's.

My brother always named his PC Eric (something to do with his budgie and Monty Python). I being a little older and more mature (?!), never did so.

But over the last few years my live-in partner and I have obtained a few more PC's. So instead of saying "hey Dear (I always call her that) I'm going to copy some files from the PC in the lounge to the one in the shed. I came up with the idea of naming them.

She is pretty good with that sort of thing, so as the one in the lounge was an old beige case and the one in the shed (mine) was a black case, she came up with the idea of calling them Ivory and Ebony. (After the McCartney/Wonder song).

I liked that and we have been able to talk about Ebony and Ivory over the last few years.

I recently built a new PC (our third one) and in keeping with our naming system I thought I better get a different colour case, so I bought a Thermaltake Aguilla case in Silver. (It loooks neat but has a few design faults).

So I came up with the name for it of Eldorado which struck me as being good for silver - eg the Spanish were always looking for silver and gold in the land of Eldorado.

So now we have 3 PC's

Ivory
Ebony
Eldorado.

Do you name your PC's ? and If so tell us your names, it could be fun ! (Piece of Shit is not allowed !)

Regards

Digby
NZ

clocker
02-03-2007, 10:59 PM
Mine is called Sprocket.

Panther
02-04-2007, 12:24 AM
Ása, its an Icelandic female name. My darling Ása

AlexV
02-04-2007, 01:58 AM
I called my first computer Bob. I know. Very creative.

Scared to admit: I use to hug him before I went on an extended trip. Am I a loser? :/

tesco
02-04-2007, 02:36 AM
I called my first computer Bob. I know. Very creative.My sister called hers teh same.:frusty:

petra1210
02-05-2007, 07:52 AM
mine is called Milos :)

DefX
02-05-2007, 08:43 AM
You guys are weird. :lol: None of the people i know name their computers. I suppose i could give mine a name...

Barbarossa
02-05-2007, 09:41 AM
I haven't named my PCs, well except for HOMEPC and WORKPC, but on my work PC I have named my drives for some reason.

A: Drive - Mercury
C: Drive - Andromeda
E: Drive - Achilles
F: Drive - Pegasus

Don't ask me why :dry:

Ellirion
02-05-2007, 11:13 AM
No I dont name my computer but i name my guitars my second girlfriends ;)
my girlfriend calls my computer something out of startrek but meh it looks good :w00t:

BoLaMN

DorisInsinuate
02-05-2007, 02:02 PM
I haven't named my PCs, well except for HOMEPC and WORKPC, but on my work PC I have named my drives for some reason.

A: Drive - Mercury
C: Drive - Andromeda
E: Drive - Achilles
F: Drive - Pegasus

Don't ask me why :dry:

Ha ha, Faggot.

I name my drives after Transformers :smilie4:

MCHeshPants420
02-05-2007, 02:10 PM
My laptop is called "lappy". My main PC is called "Skynet7", the "7" stands for the number of times I've reinstalled Windows since I moved in with Crabgirl (6 months ago...). Before I moved in with Crabgirl I named my computers with girl's names.

Barbarossa
02-05-2007, 02:26 PM
I don't know the names of any transformers :(

Would it be cooler to name them after the teenage mutant ninja turtles? :unsure:

Virtualbody1234
02-05-2007, 02:26 PM
I don't name mine.

Barbarossa
02-05-2007, 02:30 PM
Renamed them after the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse :smilie4:



However I've just noticed that Pestilence contains some bad sectors :unsure:

Barbarossa
02-05-2007, 02:35 PM
I don't name mine.

Yeah, well, you should :dabs:

MCHeshPants420
02-05-2007, 02:44 PM
My drive at work is named "DONT DELETE ANYTHING ON HERE"

lightshow
02-05-2007, 05:34 PM
I name a few of my hard disk drives

Drive E: is Aria ->that's where I keep the movies I make

Colt Seevers
02-05-2007, 08:18 PM
.....I name mine HAL 2007

mikeco
02-05-2007, 11:43 PM
"Dax" if anything thats what the case is called had "Dax" on the top with a sticker flames nd all that shit coming off it, normaly just call it my pc "PC" and laptop "Laptop" or "Craptop" :P

SirGray
02-06-2007, 12:38 AM
I call mine Lucky

Chewie
02-06-2007, 01:00 AM
I've never named my PCs but Mrs Chewie always did. Always the same name, too: That Thing, as in, "suppose you were on That Thing all night again." :(

silent h3ro
02-06-2007, 02:16 AM
I haven't named mine as I'm not that crazy or obsessed yet over my computer. :P Maybe as a joke...

Colt Seevers
02-06-2007, 08:44 AM
I haven't named mine as I'm not that crazy or obsessed yet over my computer. :P Maybe as a joke...

Thats cos you're cooler than everyone else.

MCHeshPants420
02-06-2007, 09:59 AM
I haven't named mine as I'm not that crazy or obsessed yet over my computer. :P Maybe as a joke...

Having links in your signature to pictures of it might be construed as pretty obsessive.

GepperRankins
02-06-2007, 11:15 AM
my PC is newton, our bens is brunel and my sisters is faraday :smilie4:

clocker
02-06-2007, 01:33 PM
I've never named my PCs but Mrs Chewie always did. Always the same name, too: That Thing, as in, "suppose you were on That Thing all night again." :(
Tee-hee.
Quality, that.

cool skill
02-06-2007, 03:30 PM
Of course. Computers have to have names for networking purposes.
My main is Tyrelia.
My secondary is Santyfa.
I sell these computers under my company. Vandeca.

BawA
02-06-2007, 03:40 PM
"Torpid" is what i call mine

Schab
02-06-2007, 03:56 PM
Yes, Creative Machine

silent h3ro
02-07-2007, 07:09 PM
I haven't named mine as I'm not that crazy or obsessed yet over my computer. :P Maybe as a joke...

Having links in your signature to pictures of it might be construed as pretty obsessive.It's one thing to have pictures of my computer for having pride for something I made myself but it's another to start referring it a certain name. :rolleyes:

silent h3ro
02-07-2007, 07:10 PM
I haven't named mine as I'm not that crazy or obsessed yet over my computer. :P Maybe as a joke...

Thats cos you're cooler than everyone else.Thanks, I guess, but I don't really understand why u say that. :huh:

NA_Magus
02-08-2007, 12:40 AM
Just some of my drives:
Dinah:A
Asher:C
Levi:H
Zebulun:I
Simeon:MP3 Player(Sansa)

The Hitcher
02-09-2007, 06:02 PM
hehehe

my download pc is called The Leecher
and my games pc is called special breed

rodrigof
02-12-2007, 01:11 PM
My PC is called as me but in female form...

milkman_dan
02-12-2007, 06:19 PM
Since I'm using a cheap hand me down at the moment, I don't quite have the emotional investment in it to figure out a name besides "Slow piece of crap".

Once I finally build my own, I might have to dub it something - Either HAL (2001: Space Odyssey) or Lucy (Hackers)

peat moss
02-13-2007, 12:48 PM
Mine has always been Dave or Hal 2007 ( year changes of course ) .

Mindfukced
02-13-2007, 01:06 PM
i used to name my pc BOB.

but now, im more adventurous:

PC1 and also PC2 are the names of my pc's!!

TorrentJunky
02-13-2007, 06:45 PM
I call mine The Torrent MonsteR!

digmen1
02-13-2007, 07:06 PM
Mine has always been Dave or Hal 2007 ( year changes of course ) .

Why Dave ? what is the significance of Dave ?

Kind Regards

Digby

eli1981
02-13-2007, 09:39 PM
yep i call it by my nick from the early IRC days

Eli

Seedler
02-13-2007, 10:51 PM
I call my the pr0n dispenser.

Virtualbody1234
02-13-2007, 11:07 PM
I call my the pr0n dispenser.

Yeah. You would...

Chewie
02-14-2007, 12:18 AM
I call my the pr0n dispenser.

Yeah. You would...
Haha!
That was so beautifully set up and executed; like a lob perfectly pitched so you could simply smash it into a far corner of the court.
Bravo!

holymoly
02-14-2007, 10:25 PM
I name mine after sidekicks from movies/tv series. Let's see if you guys can get all the references... :P

kato
penfold
scrappy (my laptop)

And the latter is not a scooby doo reference, just to keep u guys guessing...

(if you want to... :whistling )

LiMuBai
02-15-2007, 07:31 PM
i name mine The Matrix.

i know.. very cliched

clocker
02-16-2007, 03:41 AM
I name mine after sidekicks from movies/tv series. Let's see if you guys can get all the references... :P

kato
penfold
scrappy (my laptop)

And the latter is not a scooby doo reference, just to keep u guys guessing...

(if you want to... :whistling )
Kato>Green Hornet
Penfold>Dangermouse
Scrappy>...no clue.

Colt Seevers
02-16-2007, 03:43 AM
Scappy = Scoobie Doo, where are you..?

I'll try reading next time... Zoiks!! :frusty:

Virtualbody1234
02-16-2007, 03:58 AM
Scappy = Scoobie Doo, where are you..?


Zoiks!!
:noes:


And the latter is not a scooby doo reference, just to keep u guys guessing...






Maybe it's this guy:

http://www.vitaphone.org/scrappy.jpg

jokzor
02-16-2007, 08:58 AM
i call mine "ENRRABATOR"

SIGMA-ZERO
02-16-2007, 09:22 AM
nop

Elvenmunky
02-16-2007, 12:55 PM
Gizmo (JD's tag out of Scrubs) :)

Aaron_T
02-16-2007, 01:04 PM
Mine doesnt have a name, usually i just refer to it as "worthless piece of shit"

spacetoast
02-16-2007, 09:44 PM
Mac

Gripper
02-17-2007, 09:51 PM
Mines K9

copit
02-18-2007, 12:30 AM
lol arron .... i dont have a name for mine ... but some servers i work on are all gods names, zeus, athena, thor, herulies, and two others george and mary.... dont know why tho ....

delimare
02-18-2007, 07:16 PM
Ergo Proxy and Chainsaw.

phatback
02-18-2007, 11:19 PM
I call mine Fryloc my laptop is Meatwad and my pocket pc is Ignot

linie182
02-20-2007, 07:38 AM
I named mine Wilshire http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y300/linie182/monocle.gif

silent h3ro
02-21-2007, 07:26 PM
Mine doesnt have a name, usually i just refer to it as "worthless piece of shit"


mac


:lol:

khurios2000
02-27-2007, 01:15 AM
Antec Fanatics = my computer name

Snee
02-27-2007, 10:30 PM
I haven't named my PCs, well except for HOMEPC and WORKPC, but on my work PC I have named my drives for some reason.

A: Drive - Mercury
C: Drive - Andromeda
E: Drive - Achilles
F: Drive - Pegasus

Don't ask me why :dry:

Ha ha, Faggot.

I name my drives after Transformers :smilie4:

I named my little brother's partitions Primus, Unicron, Megatron and Optimus, when I set his computer up.

My currently visible (from windows, on this computer) partitions are called Omega, Psi, Chi, NADA, NIL, NIX and NULL.


My computers I just refer to as the shuttle, the laptop, and the imac. (And the 486, and the Amiga, but I don't really have the last two running.)

Guess why.

Mïcrösöül°V³
02-27-2007, 11:52 PM
i usually just call mine "stupid ass"

thejosher
02-28-2007, 12:25 AM
Nope.

I would if I had a server though. Server names are cool. Desktop names.. not so much.

peat moss
02-28-2007, 03:00 AM
Way mines been acting lately its Biatch ! :dabs:

waardeloos
03-01-2007, 06:28 PM
elvis = main pc
dirkje = beamer pc
berd = little flybook pc for when you think you need some internet in bed

Bo0ddha
03-02-2007, 11:41 AM
I call my computer The Black Hole. Files go in and they never come out. Used to be a HUGE jumble but managed to get a very nicely sorted collection of movies and music now.

maxrebo
03-03-2007, 02:15 AM
Squidward is my main/gaming box.
Hazard is the mATX comp I built inside a cardboard motherboard box. Called so because it shocked me once already (took the PSU out of its case so it would fit), and it will probably eventually catch fire.
Mediabox is my file server... not very creative, I know.
Tvputer, also self explanatory.
Rackedup, my web server.
Crapaq, a crappy compaq.

digmen1
03-03-2007, 03:38 AM
Hi guys

Some great names !

i thought we would get some good ones when I started this thread. This is a very proud moment for me to have started a thread that has reached 7 pages!

And got a 5 star rating ! (is that like the Hilton or George Patton ?)

regards

Digby

Fulanito
03-03-2007, 07:34 PM
I call my Smeagol because its small and does not make sounds. :)

ahh and also because is a piece of s*** hah

j2k4
03-03-2007, 08:59 PM
After reading this, I'm inspired to name my laptop rob.

T.H.rob, that is. :dabs:

peat moss
03-03-2007, 10:35 PM
I worked on all the soccer parents computers , 11 or 12 can't remember but named them all " The Hawks " after our team and their passwords were their boys names . Worked like a charm and they got a kick out of it .



Kick out of it , I just got that . :lol:

silent h3ro
03-04-2007, 12:03 AM
After reading this, I'm inspired to name my laptop rob.

T.H.rob, that is. :dabs:What are you using that laptop for? :whistling

powerade
03-04-2007, 02:58 AM
why would you name your pc?

peat moss
03-04-2007, 04:26 AM
why would you name your pc?


Why not ? Car , pecker or computer must be a guy thing ? :dabs:

Alone2Gether
03-12-2007, 12:54 AM
yea, PC name is PeeCee ever since I got my Mac.

karlstad
03-20-2007, 08:50 AM
Yes, I give them names. My computers is named for that they do. Example, my server name is "Server", My HTPC "HTPC" and Workstation name is "Workstation. :) Kind of geeky :)

j2k4
03-20-2007, 09:46 AM
Yes, I give them names. My computers is named for that they do. Example, my server name is "Server", My HTPC "HTPC" and Workstation name is "Workstation. :) Kind of geeky :)

Sounds downright practical.

Geeks everywhere are proud. :)