Name that girl!

[McVenco]

I just wondered if anyone else gave a name to their Amiga(s). I mean, I think we all (at least a lot of people I know do) look at the Miggy as being female, and girls should have nice names. :-)

I called my first A500 "Jacqueline", my A2000 was called "Jessica", my A3000 I called "Anjuli", and since I gave my current A1200 a good place so she could be used daily, I baptised her "Francesca".
(However, I did not name my other A1200 and A1000, since I never really used them on regular base)


So, am I a nutcase, or have you all done the same? :lol:

[Flashlab]

I think you're a nutcase;-)

I never named my Amigas but I do talk to them. Same with my motorcycle!

[coldfish]

nutcase.

 :-P

[swift240]

Come and lay down on this couch and tell me all about it....

[justthatgood]

I usually give my units name indicators because it makes them easier during maintanance and stuff. Especially if I have to get parts for systems.


@FlashLab
OMG, it's the VEE-DUB guy. That guy freaks me out...

[humppa]

If you want to go crazy about girl's names used for various rumoured new hardware, check out Amigaworld.net.

[benJamin]

I'm sure this has been posited before, but, around we go again!

I tend to name my hard-disk partitions, rather than the machines.  Apart from the boring ones like 'Storage' where I store most non-operating system related files, and 'Lard' where I keep other extraneous files and backups, I have two main named partitions which boot to backdrops of the associated anime character.  They are 'Misato', my main boot drive for most of my early Uni. days, and 'Mitsune' for my portable UAE hard-file which ran off a ZIP drive.  "Sir, you aren't allowed to install software on the Uni. computers!": "But, I didn't!  This is installed on my dis(k}c)s..."  :-P

All other machines have always, albeit obviously, been referred to as 'Ami' if ever 'named'.  I have a lot of Ami's.


benJamin
"You can make metacity look a little like AmigaOS,  But it's not the same."

[beller]

Flashlab wrote:
I think you're a nutcase;-)

I never named my Amigas but I do talk to them. Same with my motorcycle!

Ha, me too!  Although I must admit to naming my bike.  My big Blue BMW 1200clc is named Bertha!

Bob

[Oli_hd]

nutcase  :lol:  :crazy:

[X-ray]

With me, names are temporary and are dependant on performance. My A4000T has had many names:

1) You beauty!!
2) You fu**en prick, that render was almost finished, why crash?
3) Come on slow coach...
4) Retard
5) Genius

[JimS]

Nutcase... :-) But why not, eh? When you have several machines in use, it makes sense to give them a handle so you know which one you mean. So I've got "Amy" or "the Toaster" as my main 2000. The spares in storage don't get names... that would make it hard to canabalize them for parts. :-)  The peecee I'm on now is "The Labor Day Machine" because that's the day (U.S & Canadian holiday) I found it in the trash. It replaced "Nevian" after the co-worker who gave it to me. It replaced "Mousetrap" built in a peecee tower that used to hold external HDs for the Amiga 3000 at the store (Better Mousetrap) where I once worked. :-)

[Flashlab]

@ justthatgood

Yep it's the VeeDub guy. I think those commercials are hilarious! Laughed my pants off!

[K7HTH]

Names? Dude, you have ENTIRELY too much time on your hands.

[blobrana]

Hum,
my 1200 tower is called douglas...

My PC systems don`t have  names but i have a Hal A.I. install on them that is called charlie.

[adolescent]

X-ray wrote:

3) Come on slow coach...

I like this one.  I use this one in traffic when my son is in the car.  

My computers were originally named (hostname at least, since they're networked) after the ghosts in Ms/Pacman but now they're named after classic NAMCOT video games.