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 |
