I hated using the old Acorns at school left over from the 80s, as I'd been brought up with other computers (Commodores (C64 & Amiga), Amstrad-era Sinclairs, IBM compatibles running MSDOS & Windows), it felt like throwing away pen and paper & using a hammer & chisel instead...
Of course today I can appreciate that Acorn did do a lot in building computer literacy in the late 70s & 80s with the BBC Micro and the associated TV series which brought about a generation of programmers for the evolving computer industry, but having grown up in the 90s when the by-then old standards were conflicting with modern technology, it muddied the waters a bit too much, with the school having an old BBC Micro on the "Do not touch" desk in the classroom with a Dot Matrix printer & 5.25" discs, when at home we had a 486 powered Compaq Presario CDS520 with a CD-ROM and an HP Inkjet printer, it made 90s computing a bit confusing, hell, I remember when I showed off an amazing feat of technology in said classroom, a "Colour ink cartridge" from our HP printer, the BBC Micro & its DMP couldn't do anything like that, despite the technology being there, just not being bought by schools...
Today though, schools are packed with computers & mobile devices (some of which are powered by ARM processors, as developed by Acorn) used for various purposes, so as a generation I feel we kind of missed out in the 90s, being left with the computer boomer generation's dregs and pre-dated the current computer generation by a few years, it's amazing I ever learned how computers worked, but then, I did take many apart to figure them out...
Just a shame ARM, which powers all kinds of devices, from Raspberry Pis to Android devices like phones, tablets and mini-PCs, has now been sold off, hopefully they'll keep running the company here, but, the usual way is buy up and ship out...