I have 23! Of course only two are running. The rest are old Commodore 64s and 128s with a few TIs (collect them from yard sales … for posterity, ya know). Even an old Packard Bell (my first non-Commodore PC).Sounds like a nice collection....and if you ever find yourself pining for that Commodore 64 experience, you won't have to install an emulator on your modern, cutting-edge machine (s) :-) I think that one reason why a lot of people attain a bit of a collection of these, particularly when they're not running and not economically repairable, is that (at least here in The People's Republic of Seattle) it costs money to get rid of them, and nobody seems to want the old stuff, not even charities. I needed to get rid of a big old CRT monitor a few months ago and Office Depot wanted (I think) $20. just to take it.....and it was a Sony! (there was this little issue with the flyback transformer, but what the hey ).
Just because he has 17 computers in his home doesn’t mean he is using them all at the same time … doesn’t mean he isn’t either. ;-)