You'll never see me using SMS talk, not even when I'm texting (which isn't often). I don't care if it takes me longer or uses more characters, I spell the damn words out.

i gave my old pc to robbers..I still can't figure out how they got
that huge thing out the window and down thirty feet.They were nice enough
to leave my CRT which I now plug into my laptop that never leaves my side lol
I'm sure they are enjoying the brand new LCD they took instead,,,oh well!!

Myself, I have two working computers, a desktop and a laptop. I only use the desktop. I have three others in various states of disassembly. I kind of got into the habit of collecting up old computers, resurrecting them by swapping the parts, and then giving them to my less fortunate or computer literate friends. One of these is almost ready to go out the door.

Let's see:

old computer for internet use (no big loss in case of virus infection)
broken laptop (works, but can't get picture out of it)
ye olde 486 (with 25MHz processor and 4 MB RAM!!)
and, of course, my main computer used for work and play.

Plus, i just used 500 € to buy new computer parts.

Got four desktoppers in use here... three Vista/XP dual boots (one belongs to ma), and one XP rig that I just finished rebuilding from old parts leftover from upgrades. Yeah, I finally pulled my finger out and decided to face the beast after it decided it wouldn't boot up the first time around, upon which, I decided to hide it in the closet.

That was around nine months ago, give or take!! Oh if only I had been inclined/in the mood to investigate it back then... turned out to be just the IDE ribbon needed to be reseated properly. (Now where's that kicking myself in the pants smiley some us would find useful here? )

I also have another build in the works - has an old 476 socket P4 2.8ghz on an Asrock mobo with 2gb of RAM, a 40gb Maxtor HDD, a nVidia 7600GT GPU, a basic Soundblaster card and 17" BENQ CRT monitor - for my daughter and partner. I'm just waiting on them to come over with the OS and a bigger HDD to finish it. Their rig went guts up and they can't afford to get another one, so I figured they may as well have use of my spare parts as have them taking up closet space.

lets see, 2 active computers at home. plus 3 desktops and 1 laptop. at work i have a desktop plus about 10 virtual machines that i use regularly.

i already gave away two systems this year. anyone have the address of a african village i can send my extras to?

lol

Everyone in my family has 2 computers (a total of six). Our problem is that we don't get rid of our older rigs as I get new ones.

I don't have any machines that very old (All are past 2005) I did however, have an 90's era printer. But I don't have it anymore. I smashed it up with a hammer.  

Up until 4 months ago i had 4 comps 2 x 2003 HP S5020AN's & 2 x G3 imacs.

A customer of mine was going to throw a dell GX110 Win 98 out (it was a dog full of viruses & spyware)once i got it home & spent a few hours on it she was all good to go,another comp i got for free (no brand model) was one that had been left on the roadside in a suburban street,took it home cranked it up worked fine ,i even know one of the people that was in some birthday photo's that were on it,worse still there was business info on employees including their IRD numbers (Government tax numbers for each person),some people are bloody idiots leaving info like that on computers *shakes head in disbelief*