In 1997 when I was in 5th grade, the first computer I used was a Acorn (it was either a Electron or Acorn) that was a hand me down from some UK schools that were done with them. We had this professor that got them as a donation for out school in Romania and set up a lab with these things. They were pretty old for that time, I assume, but they were my first contact with such a beast and I was hooked.

I did not pay attention to their make and did not know the history, I just got to learn by interacting with them. It would be about 4 years more before I managed to persuade my parents to buy me an actual PC.