46, which puts me in the last and seemingly large bucket. Whats-a-matter with the poll originator - lots of divisions for < 46 but only one for 46 through to death? Come on! ;-)

In keeping with the trend in this thread, my first computer experience was a 4KB RAM (wow) Hewlett Packard something or other with a tape drive; only one keyboard/terminal and it was a single tasking OS so many of us wrote our stunning applications by filling in the locations on a punch card with pencil. The notion that I could walk around with 8GB in my pocket would have stunned me back in the late 1970's.

After taking a break from computers for a while I re-joined them and the industry, writing mailing list software with C 1.0 on DOS 1.0 or 1.1 or something like that; still remember questioning Windows when it first came out; worked on everything from VAX to IBM minis and mainframes at Computer Associates; later on big iron Unix at Data General; and then back again to NT based solutions, and finally, for the last 5 or 6 years, open source Unix/Linux where I remain and plan to.

Having misread the potential for Windows (was more a hate relationship with the instability of Windows than anything) and then underestimated early on the Mosaic Browser (hey, wasn't ftp and gopher good enough!), I wonder if I've misread the curve with the Nokia tablets ;-). Nah... internet in your pocket is a pretty reliable theme to spend some time on.