Will a second generation shuffle sinc to more than one computer

I am having problems getting my shuffle to sync to my new computer, it worked fine on my old one. Does anyone have any suggestions? I was told it would sinc to only one computer

I'm having the same problem.  I plugged my ipod shuffle up to new cpu and 3 orange blinks.  CPU nor Itunes will recognize my device.  Very Frustrating!

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