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Context - I'm nearly 50 and had a ZX81. Doom on an IPX network with 486 level machines is where I had to start naming devices for LAN parties.

As a teenage boy I gave the computers female names which appealed to me. Never people I knew except by coincidence, but Sarena, Lucy, Kim, &c. were assigned to a machine once without being reused. Maybe they had a mindspace as characters in my life?

As time passed and I started living with various partners, names have changed to a more adult way of working.

I now have abbreviated owner and device descriptor. Exempli gratia: 'PredBook' is my Panasonic Toughbook. 'PredPS4' is self explanatory.