My Computer History (or, the Nerd Resume)

It occurs to me that I've never attempted to record or list all the computers I've owned and used over the years. Before my memory fails me, I'm going to commit at least a few down:

1. TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with Cassette Drive (Approximately 1984, Upgraded to 256K RAM)
2. Apple IIGS (1986?, still no hard drive - I bought one but returned it because I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with it, and it was way expensive.)
   
3. No-name, 80386-based, 33-mHz tower case PC (1990?-1995, beige, furniture-huge. I ran a BBS off it in high school.)
4. Power Macintosh 8600 (1995-1998, $3000, my first web design and imaging machine)
5. PowerBook 2400 (1997-1998, unbelievably compact, unbelievably awkward to use. My first laptop, bought for covering conventions for Cnet.) 
6. Home built Pentium (1998-2000, I think I just disposed of this a year or two ago as it had a second life at my parents' house.)
   
7. Dell Laptop (1998, Adrian and I bought this for our company. The first day we tested the new -external- wireless modem in Harvard Square, a pigeon dropped a mess right on the pristine keyboard.)
8. Large Dell Laptop (Late 1999, originally my work laptop at iKena but eventually purchased from the company for my personal use for $250 when we were acquired by Net2Phone.)
   
9. AMD "Athlon"-based home-built PC (2001-2004? Slot A based.)
10. Dell Latitude X200 (2002-2004, bought for business school after I dropped the previous Dell at a final exam.)
    
11. 2nd Athlon-based home-built PC (2004-2007, Socket A. Still in use, very occasionally.)
12. MacBook Black, 2Ghz/2 GB RAM (January 2007-Present. I've used the hell out of this computer, it was my only personal PC for a year and is now both my work and personal computer. I'm probably a year from thinking about replacing it as I write this in June 2008 -- my only complaint is it's a few pounds heavier than I'd like, but the MacBook Air isn't quite fast enough yet.)

Yeah, I notice that I'm kind of vague around the PC desktops and laptops I used during the 2000-2007 period. I blame it on the desktops all being home-built systems that often saw a number of CPUs during their lifetimes, and the laptops being those generic black Dell designs that are always named "Latitude" or "Inspiron" with a number that doesn't particularly mean anything. It's also clear that I change computers about every two years -- ignoring the overlap between desktop and PC ownership (which partially relates to playing games on the PC), I've owned about 10 computers in the last 24 years.

I'm definitely done with doing anything home-built any more. The time investment vs. the marginal savings and learning opportunity just no longer works in the current era of cheap computing power. No point squeezing an extra 10% more power out of hardware when you can just spend another $100 or so instead.

(I'm also wondering if I should really put the Playstation, Xbox and Xbox360 on this list -- by all measures they're essentially a computer -- especially the latter two with their internal HDs -- and I'm not sure they should be cut out just because they're specialists.)