I fell in the earliest numbered slot. "1980 - 1984". I have files I put on floppy from a TI-99. I was four years old! The poll results are interesting. When I first moved away from home in 1997, more than half the people in the dorm had no computer. This was in a math/science school. By the end of 1999, nearly all students had computers. The poll above included employed adults, but if we assume poor students lagged the population by a few years during this time, the data fits rather well.

In working for the government, we are routinely forced to use GSA for purchases. GSA is often far higher than the open market price. As a GSA contract is often good for over a year, prices that were good for a Core2 system last year are painful today. Modern systems aren't even available without circumventing GSA. GSA was intended for cutting grass and painting buildings, not IT purchases.