List: Computers & Electronics

A list of my notable and memorable desktops, laptops, electronic and equipment from all these years.

Year	Product	Note
1990	First PC	My first introduction to PC’s was when the business next door to my dad’s business in Station Street, the owner gave him some PC’s in lieu of rent. A 386? with an Amber display was my first PC. MS-DOS 6? installed and spent some time messing with the command line. The PC had Lotus 1-2-3 installed and came with a *massive* manual.
1991	Nintendo	NES
1993	Panasonic RQ-2107 Portable Cassette Player	Spent a lot of time listening to, and falling asleep, to music with this device. The player was from the late 80’s but I slowly claimed it as my own a little after that 🙂
1993	Nintendo	Gameboy
1994	Second PC	My second PC we purchased from Compusys in East London in around 1994. It had a 486DX2 processor and ran Windows 3.11 and later I upgraded it to Windows 95. Microsoft Encarta constantly impressed my friends.
~1998	Third PC	My third desktop was also purchased from Compusys in EL in around 1998. It had a Pentium II Celeron Processor and ran Windows 98. Did some gaming on it.
1998	Nokia 6120	First Cellphone
1999	Camcorder	My first online purchase and first camcorder purchased on BidOrBuy.co.za … did some MX filming out at the EL MX Track on it with Alon.
2000	Palm Pilot	First Palm Pilot purchased from Cash Crusaders in Quigney.
2001	Ericcson T28
2002	Canon Elura 40MC	Digital video camera, purchased from Best Buy in ~ February of 2003
2004	Canon SD110
2004	Apple iPod Mini
2005	Apple iPod Shuffle
2005	Blackberry 7105t
2006	Nintendo Wii	Canon Rebel T2i
2006	Xbox 360
2006	Dell 2950 Server
2007	Apple iPhone 3G	First iPhone Adopter, purchased from ATT the store in Gastonia where it was really quiet on launch day
2007	Apple Macbook	Bough to do app development, but really struggled to get used to the OS
2008	Apple Mac Mini
2008	Olympus µ-770SW	Under water camera
2009	Canon Rebel T2i	First DSLR, bought to mainly shoot video
2011	MacBook Air
~ 2011	Canon Rebel T4i	Bought after my T2i was stolen on my way to East London from JNB, my bag was too big to fit in an overhead compartment and somewhere en-route the camera was stolen 🙁
2013	Raspberry Pi 3	Bought to run RetroPi and some home automation projects. (Mainly temp sensors). Also ended up using it for some other small projects.
2014	Google Glass	Won a pair at the Hackathon
2015	Gaming PC	First gaming PC build 🙂
2016	Oculus Rift	Preordered