1987 was a difficult year to still introduce single purpose text processing computers: A year before the slightly more expensive but way more capable Macintosh

1987 was a difficult year to still introduce single purpose text processing computers: A year before the slightly more expensive but way more capable Macintosh 512Ke got out, the C64 got it's GEOS graphical environment. In 1986 you could even get an Atari 1040ST with 4 times the RAM for 999$. And as an addendum: I was typing a lot back in the day, too, but when walking through a department store, these single-purpose computers really looked like a bad deal between all the all-purpose computers that often had a GUI and a drawing app as well.