Same here. Got into computers with an IBM PCjr (ha they sucked) and wrote my first programs in BASIC and Pascal. Took a sabbatical from computers that took a

Same here. Got into computers with an IBM PCjr (ha they sucked) and wrote my first programs in BASIC and Pascal. Took a sabbatical from computers that took a little longer than expected and got back into them around 1998. Since then, I went back to school and eventually got an MSCS. Still working on picking up new skills in parallel with my current job (which is all Java/J2EE).