I'm really disciplined about most things, but I have my weaknesses. I never went into debt to buy stuff (I pay my CCs in full every month), and have always saved money. I also get really good deals on everything I buy, but still - I've bought way too much.
I used the computers first when I was gambling. I was also bad about selling old computers, so I'd have three laptops lying around. Here's what the 20 computers were for :
Thinkpad A31P - Laptop I used sometimes
HP Z4900 - Laptop I rarely used (functioned as my alarm clock when I was polyphasic.)
Libretto U105 - Mini laptop I started using a lot
Rackmount #1 - I made my own router using Astaro Linux
Rackmount #2 - Home theater PC. Controlled the theater in the next room over
Rackmount #3 - Media getting PC. Downloaded / error checked movies and TV shows all day
Rackmount #4 - X-10 PC. Controlled the 20+ computer controlled light fixtures in my house as well as the 20+ motion detectors
Rackmount #5 - NAS PC. Network attached server with almost a terabyte of storage at its peak
Rackmount #6 - Automatic poster PC. I had two stupid little blogs and this ran a program/macro I made to automatically post free articles to them. I made about $2 on this waste of time.
Rackmount #7 - Unused after a while, started out with gambling.
Rackmount #8 - Unused after a while, started out with gambling.
Dell Servers #1-3 - Unused after a while, started out with gambling.
Desktop #1 - Linux desktop computer. It used a 24" screen and two 17" ones simultaneously. There's a picture of that in a super old blog post.
Desktop #2 - Ran windows, stopped being used when I switched to #1.
Then in the storage room there were 3 old dell servers that sucked and a mini cube PC I was going to make into another theater PC for my bedroom or kitchen. For a bonus, I had an Audrey that I almost never used.
See? I don't make this stuff up.
Tynan