Ahh, stupid me. I searched with the kid in the search frase even though I understood your meaning. I got this: BBC micro-bit

I actually think that I read about the BBC micro somewhere, but the British computers I were aware of back then was the Armstrad, the Memotech and the Sinclair Spectrum because I read about them in the magazines.

I can still (if I really concentrate) feel the violent attraction we had against this new technology. Looking at how primitive it was it is not entirely understandable today :)