I start using computer (it was a schneider CPC-464, which had virtually no success in US) when I was 13, which means i'm in computer for nearly 14 years.

My first access to the internet was with a TN-3270 emulation connected to a S370 mainframe ... kind of a dinausorus! Not completly extinct, but in good way!

I also made several little systems based on 8051 or TI's DSP.

*nostalgic*

Jean-Francois