Power unit

[justsomegurl.livejournal.com]

I've heard people call their tower a monitor, "that box", and many other things.
I just took a call where the guy kept calling his computer a "power unit".
that made me giggle.

Comments

[chaobell]

We get a lot of people that call it a modem.

Or a hard drive.

Or a CPU, but those aren't nearly as frequent as they used to be.

CPU...

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I used to do that years ago but only because I started off on a PCjr, and the part that wasn't the keyboard or the monitor pretty much WAS the CPU. heh

We got the "modem" thing a lot at Dell. Now that I do internal tech support, most of the people I deal with have their tower under their desk and refuse to acknowledge that it is part of the computer at all.

[jecook]

When I tell my lusers to bring their machine in to the shop ('cause I'm lazy, and frankly I don't want to drive around in 110+ tempuratures), I tell em to bring the box portion of the computer, and no keyboard and mouse, because that's all I want, and it makes sense in their tiny, cramped minds. I say this because they have a fuckton of work related stuff going on, and I don't want to confuse them anymore then I already do...

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Over here, it's mostly referred to as "the drive" (כונן in Hebrew, pronounced "konan", with the accent on "a").

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

hard disk, processor, CPU, to name a couple more.

[ghostdandp.livejournal.com]

drive, rom, power supply (goes along with power unit), brain not to mention any of the hundreds of brand names "I want to bring the Dell in" "Ok,just bring the tower, or the main box" "You mean the Dell?" "Uh.. ok"

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

"It's my new HP modem! the one you gave me!"

O.o