40 *coughs*
The 26-30 and 31-35 demographics were the first to grow up with personal computers in their homes
Nope. I'm a 45 y.o Gen Xer. I had a C64 when I was 12. Used it all through high school w/ a dot matrix printer. To be sure it wasn't a household item like TVs but people had them. My cousin -- so jealous of him -- had an Apple II.
And most schools had some form of a computer lab back in the mid-80s with a mix of TRS-80s, Franklin PC clones, and/or Apple IIs and IICs. At my high school a semester of computer, which included programming in BASIC and LOGO, was required.
Also back in the 80s everyone wore a watch of some kind.
Did you play Ultima?
I remember logging hours upon hours on the Ultima series on my Apple IIe
No I was much more of an arcade-type "gamer." Short. Attention. Span. But I did, to my parent's ire, log many long distance hours on BBSes and then GEnie, and finally Compuserve. I swear those last two offered free hours and then counted each one as two. They always went faster than my Dad claimed the bill was for. Evenly he made me unplug the modem.![]()
I wasted many hours playing majormud, tradewars, etc on local bbs.
No I was much more of an arcade-type "gamer." Short. Attention. Span. But I did, to my parent's ire, log many long distance hours on BBSes and then GEnie, and finally Compuserve. I swear those last two offered free hours and then counted each one as two. They always went faster than my Dad claimed the bill was for. Evenly he made me unplug the modem.![]()
The next interesting poll would be age and model. I would expect those in the 26-30 range are probably getting the sport while a good number 40 and older are getting the Stainless Steel.