The name of our home server is WOPR 😀

What do you name your computers?

@Burk My iMac is called “Central”. When I have a MacBook it’s called “DrewBook”.

@Burk my iMac is Rainier, since it’s the big screen in my home.

@Burk UNIVAC in honor of Grace Hopper.

@Burk toponyms from the area where I first did fieldwork, so my main machine Eleutherai and my backup is Oinoe

@Burk Air is called roadie, iPhone mrBatsu and watch, predictably, dickTracy...

iPad, when I had it, was jeeves and disks usually have random names, but the rugged LaCie is fatso (I know, I know, disk shaming, but...)

@Burk iMac is The Black Pearl, MacBook Pro is Serenity.

@ronguest My old iMac is running Ubuntu now, and I've named it iNux.

@ronguest suggestions for name for your new iMac- Dragon or Sun Bear. Sadly I have no names for my computers and ios devices, I am currently trying to think of ones.

@helgeg I'd probably do that with our old iMac but I already have a NAS I use as a Linux box which suffices for me.

@Burk Gandalf, Aragorn, Samwise Gamgee. The rest of the family (except for my wife) - Éowyn and Dernhelm, Arwen, Radagast The Brown, Galadriel, Gimli. Note: in my home iPhones and iPads are considered computers.

@Burk may I suggest RIPLEY for the new Mac? Or maybe NEWT?

@Burk I used to name my computers after photographers and servers after cartoon characters, but I'd often forget which was which so now I name everything after what they are: e.g. "Jack's iMac", "Static Web Server" etc. Boring but less prone to confusion.

@Burk My computers have always been “Christopher’s _______”. Once upon a time I named my hard drives after aircraft, but I unfortunately stopped. But now that you’ve reminded me of it, I’m tempted to do it again.

@Burk This is fun. I use words from Middle Earth. I favour the Elvish names for their lush sounds. I take swords or precious stones for laptops and the names of horses for removable media (Asfaloth is my current active backup).

@a_seagull_story @cjkonecnik @jack @khurtwilliams @ronguest @brandedPixels @maique @aclaman @macgenie @sku_b @bix @canion @jeannie

SO many great names from everyone!

I love seeing what others name their computers / gadgets / etc! 😀 💻 📱

@Burk mine are named after BSG ships. iPhone is Viper MkVII, iMac is Battlestar Galactica, old MBP is Battlestar Valkyrie.