J G Electronics CC | Unit B9 Commercial Cntr 285 Voortrekker Rd, Maitland 7404,

JG Electronics was founded in 1990 by John Georgiou, while studying for his National Diploma in Electronic Engineering at Wits Technicon.<br/><br/>Initially the company did repairs to IT and related electronic equipment, hence the name.<br/><br/>In 1991, the company started selling PCs which in those days had no colour, and had a 10Mb Hard drive, with 64K of RAM (in other words less capacity than even the most basic phone today).<br/><br/>At this time inkjet printers were still starting out (most companies were using dot matrix printers which were like a glorified typewriter), so the quality was terrible. The only printers that could produce photo quality images cost tens of thousands of Rands, and took a minute to print a page. Companies needing photo quality were paying up to R 60,000 for a photo printer. R 60,000 in those days was more money than a good car cost to buy !<br/><br/>In early 1994 JG Electronics found a company in the United States manufacturing a photo quality printer which took 30 minutes to print a page, and which only