I wonder if it's something about the phrase "How old were you when...?" that brings out the older generation. I feel I'm in good company age-wise (sometimes a rare happening on Renderosity). A family friend brought over a switch-programmed machine that read back with a row of eight indicator lamps. That's the first computer I ever touched. I was definately a young one then. I was, however, savy enough about the whole concept to buy my first computer to help me do my job (being "Radar O'Reilly" for a combat engineer company). Kaypro2X, built-in green phosphor screen, two massive 800K floppy drives. Still have it and at least three years ago it still booted fine. Was writing games in BASIC and took a whack at Z80 assembly -- "Hello, World" is as advanced as I got there! Somewhere around 1986 I had managed to get a Mac Plus and was visiting a local BBS through, I think it was a 128. Took hours to download a two-inch bitmap. The built-in sound and graphics capability of the Mac got me going and I was doing what we then called "bitmapped" art all over the place. I was up to a Centris or something before I had color. Finally got dragged into Power macs (I couldn't find any decent MIDI software for the old chipset) and was able to run a Ray Dream3D demo I'd had lying around. And that was it for me. I don't think I'll ever be good at 3D, but I'm certainly gonna keep learning for as I can raise my head (and maybe a little longer). I'm only 43. I feel young this year.