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Age is not the matter, the interests are. I knew a guy who was 13 and interested in old computers - very old computers - in tube radios and a lot of other old stuff. And he could repair things very well. But later he changed totally, I don't have any contact with him anymore.
I'm 33 now, and I used the most common computer systems, C64, Amiga, MacOS 7.5 (on Amiga emulation) MS-DOS, Win98, Win XP and now OS X. But I'm now settling down to C64/C128 and MacOS, and a bit of Amiga if I find time for them.
An important thing is when people are keeping their roots. I never hide my old computers from my history. Without them I wouldn't have made so many experiences in computing. The most kids today start with Windows and a mouse, great. Click, Click, Click and start the game. Older computer geeks had much more to do, and they came earlier in contact with programming, especcially if the computer directly starts with it's integrated programming language - BASIC.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.
My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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