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Bolkonskij
Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023 
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on: October 09, 2021, 15:34
C'mon, I know you guys are so full of creative energy, you couldn't resist renaming that boring "Macintosh HD" on your desktop into something more fun. I for one tend to give my Macs the name of the original Cheers TV series cast. It just started during watching some reruns during the late 90s and somewhat stuck with me. So they're named "Norm" ('evening everybody'), "Cliffie", "Sam", "Rebecca" etc. What have you come up with? I'm thinking of writing a short article for S7T about this very Macintosh tradition of giving your Mac / HD a special name and maybe post a "best of" collection maybe :-) Like "Bad Apple" for owners of a 5200  EDIT: Just for fun, starting making a list 
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Last Edit: November 11, 2022, 09:29 by Bolkonskij
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mac-cellar
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128 MB  Posts: 176 Gotta love System 7
Reply #1 on: October 12, 2021, 16:56
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For a while, I named HDs after the Knights of the Round Table e.g., Arthur, Lancelot, etc. On my PowerCenter Pro, I have two HDs with a combined three partitions named "Power", "Center" and "Pro". There's an external drive that I used for a long time to shuttle between Macs - named that one "Dobby" (Harry Potter). Thinking of starting on characters from O Brother Where Art Thou? for another system ("Pete", "Delmar", "Everett", etc)
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lilliputian
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64 MB Posts: 68 A Good Apple!
Reply #2 on: October 13, 2021, 00:16
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For years, the name of our hard drive growing up was Hal, as named by my dad, and it was labeled red!
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ovalking
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128 MB Posts: 199
Reply #3 on: October 13, 2021, 23:20
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Call me boring if necessary, but I've never been one to give pet names to machines, whether that be cars, computers or pencils! My drives have strictly descriptive names such as Barracuda P1 30G. Apparently some people just use single letters, but surely not this century...
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #4 on: October 14, 2021, 15:17
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Ovalking is boring. *Ducks_and_runs*
Last Edit: October 14, 2021, 15:25 by Bolkonskij
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #5 on: November 01, 2021, 17:48
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I named my system Samarkand, for its the place where wondrous things do happen.
Last Edit: February 17, 2023, 16:09 by 68040
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fogWraith
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32 MB Posts: 59
Reply #6 on: November 08, 2021, 09:11
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I always, out of habit, have a "System" partition and a "Work" partition, the machines are often given names from places or individuals in Lord of The Rings 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #7 on: November 08, 2021, 09:40
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Like White City for the 840av and Mordor for the M1 MacBook? Nice idea.
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copland
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2 MB Posts: 3 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #8 on: March 15, 2022, 23:22
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I named my Macintosh HD Zoomer, because my Performa 5215CD felt fast. At least for the first few months.
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snes1423
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256 MB Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina
Reply #9 on: March 16, 2022, 14:25
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boogie bear hd is mine
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zChris
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16 MB Posts: 20 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #10 on: March 21, 2022, 15:51
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I call mine Happy Disk
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Europa
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64 MB Posts: 109 she/her
Reply #11 on: March 22, 2022, 15:03
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Well, that really depends. I name my Macs after anime or video game characters followed by a suffix ("Book" for laptops and "Mac" for desktops). My one System 7 Mac is named HinaBook. For the HD, I will name it after the computer if it's a single bootable partition followed by HD for hard drives, SSD for solid state drives, SD for secure digital cards, and CFD for compact flash cards (the D is added to CFD to make it "Compact Flash Disk" and make it stay with the naming scheme of ending with a D). HinaBook's boot drive is named HinaBook CFD. For systems with multiple bootable partitions, I name the partitions after the codename of the system (so my Power Mac G4, YukariMac, has two partitions, one named Moonlight and one named Tiger). The only deviation from this is my iBook G3 (dual booted same way as my Power Mac G4). Its name is MiraiBook and its partition names are MiraiBook HD (OS 9) and MiraiBook SSD (Tiger). This is because I originally had the original 10GB HDD in there, which could only hold OS 9, and didn't want to break any aliases or anything when I upgraded and partitioned, so I altered my naming scheme a little.
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psj20
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16 MB Posts: 24 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #12 on: April 10, 2022, 13:02
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Well for this one topic, my Macintosh HD name is Mac HD which is... i guess is pretty generic? I really like to name my Macintosh HD with usual "x HD"
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #13 on: November 11, 2022, 10:04
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What a fabulous list of imaginative names you’ve come up with, I especially liked the round table, class. My hdd naming started when i brought my macmini back in 2006, i had a matching la cie backup hdd. I called them Rhubarb and custard, two fold it was a childhood cartoon in the uk. Look it up, it was rather quirky (messed up) felt pen animation with a funky theme tune. Rhubarb & custard is also a desert and a boiled sweet/candy in the uk. My SE/30 really found it’s own name - Zippy was also a childhood TV programme called rainbow, it’s also ironic as he’s really slow and not zippy at all. My La Cie hdd died many years ago when my son knocked if off my desk so when i got the 6200CD it seemed appropriate to bring back the name Custard so my chooser would be complete again. Finally the g3 imac is Rosemary again from TV. Though not mac related my car is called Sid. It’s a vauxhall insignia (Opel/Buick) in Europe or USA so insignia Sid. I use it for the cars wifi
Last Edit: November 11, 2022, 10:08 by Neal_SE30
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MTT
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256 MB Posts: 394 SSW7 Oldtimer
Reply #14 on: November 21, 2022, 00:13
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My Mac's tend to have mundane names for networking purposes, all lower case e.g.; mac, centris, g4, mini, minig4, macbook. The only exception, although not too dissimilar is basil (my networked Basilisk II) and jas (my Hackintosh which runs JaS - Intel Tiger OS). HD's I rename to anything other than Macintosh HD.
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