The purpose of this study was to investigate whether parents were more likely to purchase home computers for sons than for daughters, and whether elementary and secondary students reflect sex differences in their attitudes toward computer use. The survey instrument was constructed to provide face validity in order to investigate whether computer use practices among school age children, as reported in the literature, could be observed among local students. Four groups were surveyed--two fifth grade classes, one seventh grade class, and high school computer programming students--and frequency data were analyzed using chi square and converted to percentages. It was found that: (1) there was no observed statistically significant relationship between sex and ownership of home computers at any of the grade levels; and (2) there were no observed sex differences in computer use attitudes among fifth or seventh graders, although a statistically significant relationship was observed between sex and computer use attitudes among high school students, which is consistent with results reported in the literature. It was also found that parents were as likely to provide home computers for daughters as they were to provide them for sons, a divergence from the findings of prior research. However, because of the small sample size and nonrandom sampling, generalization beyond the present sample is limited and further research is indicated. Fourteen references are listed and two figures are appended. (MES)