I've been thinking about this alot over the past week. I don't think I've ever been a technophobe. I've probably been more of a technophile for most of my life. And I had some early computer experience that probably helped.
I remember the first computer I ever had any experience with - a tiny Timex-Sinclair 1000. We couldn't do very much with it, but my brother and I enjoyed playing around with it. And then in high school I took two years of BASIC programming on TRS-80 model III's. During that time frame, my dad got us a Commodore 64. That was a fun computer. It had a lot more capability than the TS-1000, and with the color monitor it exceeded the TRS-80's abilities, too.(It was a great game-playing machine, and I used it for that purpose until about 5 years ago, when it apparently received some smoke damage during my apartment fire.)
While I enjoyed using computers from the time I was in high school, I never pictured myself working with them. My brother is a programmer, and I figured he was the one who would be working with computers - I would use them for leisure. Guess again! (Of course, growing up I never figured I would be a librarian either - despite the fact that I volunteered in my school library in 3rd grade and again in high school...) I'm glad I got the opportunity to become a children's librarian and discover how much I enjoy the library. And how much technology has become a driving force in the library world.
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