I remember being impressed at the specs of the Coupe, and seeing the manual was a pleasure. But even at the time it was released it seemed obvious it was doome

I remember being impressed at the specs of the Coupe, and seeing the manual was a pleasure. But even at the time it was released it seemed obvious it was doomed to failure. I never saw one in the flesh, but I did want to. The 48k spectrum was everywhere, and I have a giant print of the infamous rubber keyboard hanging on the wall behind me, but everything after that was always less special. (I owned a +2A, and I knew a couple of people with the +3, but they were very uncommon and mostly people moved on to 16 bit machines instead of staying in the Sinclair family.)