How many Mac's have you had in your lifetime? (Home only + parent's machines)

[TommyWillB]

The poll that asks how many Mac's we all have has me intrigued because the same number of folks who have 2 Mac have more than 5!!!

So I'm thinking that those of you who have more than 5 Mac's have never sold, given away, or in any way ever parted with a Mac.

In short, I think you 5++ folk are pack rats.

So let's start counting how many machines you've had in total... Counting both the machines you have now, as well as the one's you've parted with.

[RacerX]

I plead the 5th.

[ABassCube]

8 Macs in my lifetime (including the ones belonging to my brother and parents):

1. Mac Classic
2. Performa 636CD
3. Another Performa 636CD (This one was the first computer I had for myself that I didn't have to share with my parents. Don't know why we got the same model again about 2 years later, LOL).
4. Beige G3 (266 MHz)
5. Performa 6360
6. Blueberry iMac SE (Slot-loading, 400 MHz)
7. Blueberry iBook (300 MHz)
8. Graphite iBook SE (FireWire, 466 MHz)

Soon to be 9 computers, as my brother is getting a new LCD iMac VERY soon.

Adam.

[rinse]

powermac 6100
power mac 7100
performa 6400/180
imac 233
imac 400 dvse
g4 quicksilver 733

[simX]

• Mac Plus (donated to elementary school)
• Mac IIsi (parents have it stashed in their garage)
• PowerBook 150 (was my dad's, I used it for a bit for fun when I had an iMac, and then gave it to my cousin)
• PowerBook 3400c (my dad's for his elementary school admin job)
• iMac (mine, got it the Saturday they were available -- gave to my bro)
• G4 cube (my current machine, got for birthday as well )
• iBook (combo 600 MHz -- my mom's current laptop)
• TiBook (combo 667 MHz -- my dad's current laptop)

I've used all of these at one time or another.

[callieX]

mac plus (moved up from a commodore 64)
IIcx (had the longest)
7300 (eventually gave to the nephew for college)
G3 wallstreet

Waiting for the G5

This is not counting the four bought by me by my former employer Westinghouse.

Calliex

[voice-]

Only 3, I'm afraid.

* Performa (75Mhz, 8Mb(now 40Mb), 500Mb, CD-rom)
* iMac (400Mhz, 64Mb(now 512Mb), 15Gb(Now 40Gb), DVD-rom)
* PowerMac G4 Quicksilver (733Mhz, 128Mb(now 640Mb), 40Gb, CD-RW)

And soon to be another addition:
* iMac (800Mhz, 256Mb(yep, it's gonna be expanded), 60Gb, Superdrive)

[kenny]

It's a little embarrasing, but I have to admit to 19 Macs (so far). Does it make it worse that most of them have names?

1 iBook (Dual/500) (iceman) *
1 G4/500 (turlingdrome) *
1 iMac DVSE (Graphite/600) (marvin) *
1 G3/300 MT (gossamer) *
1 iMac (Blueberry/266) (jellybean)
1 PB/250 (Wallstreet/13.1") (raven) *
1 20th Anniversary Mac (w/ L2 G3/400 upgrade card. Sadly, no MacOSX for it ) (navi)
1 PowerBook 190 (with a WHOLE 8Megs of RAM!! )
1 Quadra650 (Runs *BSD, and Apache, DNS, DHCP server.) (nologic)
1 Quadra950 (bubbagump)
1 Quadra610
1 Performa 638CD
2 CI's
1 LCII
1 LCIII
2 SEs
1 Mac128 (no longer boots...)

(* == currently in use)

So Tommy's theory is right.. more than 5 == packrat. It's been one of those long-standing, "when I get some free time" projects to either photograph them and get them up on eBay or give them away, or whatever (anyone wanna buy an old mac? cheap? ), but many of these Macs just live in my upstairs closet and have done for years... pathetic, isn't it?