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I imagine the march of technological progress and America's shifts in employment mean it is a lot less prevalent than it was a generation or so ago - a lot fewer children following their parent into manufacturing jobs.

That said, my Dad worked in computing - not as a coder, just as a manager, but it meant that we had an early proto-PC, a 2,400 baud modem and a CompuServe connection. It was probably inevitable that I would end up doing something with computers...