How many computers do you own?
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:12 pm
If you look broadly, computers are becoming more ubiquitous and common even as devices we'd usually call a "computer" (in a desktop or laptop format, whether Mac or PC or whatnot) gradually decline. Smartphones and tablets are the most obvious examples, as both are types of miniaturized computers by now.
My count is rather large:
1. Custom built desktop and 2. HP laptop - as detailed in other thread
3. Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone
4. Cheap-ish Asus 8 in tablet (primarily as reader)
5. Android media box used to play video to HDTV off a 5TB external drive
6. said HDTV
7. blu-ray player (cheap/basic model, predates above media box but kept around just in case)
8. set-top box as provided by ISP/TV provider
9. Medtronic insulin pump (yes, it's powered by a special purpose mini computer to regulate and monitor insulin delivery and monitor sensor/ meter input via wireless signal)
10. Blood glucose meter (custom built mini computer to read results of strip and keep log of results in memory)
11.FiOS cable modem/wireless router combination (albeit not fully mine but family owned)
Other mini control boards built into projection alarm clock/radio and modern thermostat controlled room air conditioner (which even has its own remote) could count as weaker examples still.
1-5 are my list are the clearest, and my list is expanded a bit by custom medical equipment but they all have a CPU in them. There's an older smartphone kept as a backup (still works, and it's trade in value of about $10 is low enough that I saved it in a box) that could add to the list as well
My count is rather large:
1. Custom built desktop and 2. HP laptop - as detailed in other thread
3. Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone
4. Cheap-ish Asus 8 in tablet (primarily as reader)
5. Android media box used to play video to HDTV off a 5TB external drive
6. said HDTV
7. blu-ray player (cheap/basic model, predates above media box but kept around just in case)
8. set-top box as provided by ISP/TV provider
9. Medtronic insulin pump (yes, it's powered by a special purpose mini computer to regulate and monitor insulin delivery and monitor sensor/ meter input via wireless signal)
10. Blood glucose meter (custom built mini computer to read results of strip and keep log of results in memory)
11.FiOS cable modem/wireless router combination (albeit not fully mine but family owned)
Other mini control boards built into projection alarm clock/radio and modern thermostat controlled room air conditioner (which even has its own remote) could count as weaker examples still.
1-5 are my list are the clearest, and my list is expanded a bit by custom medical equipment but they all have a CPU in them. There's an older smartphone kept as a backup (still works, and it's trade in value of about $10 is low enough that I saved it in a box) that could add to the list as well