It was in good/old bad days when you announced the product before it was ready. Sinclair used to do this all the timeThe photographs looked beautiful but it was only a wooden model!
When it was finally ready the English company went bust and all the stock was sold off cheaply to another country.
Oh yeah, I remember too, I had a ZX81 at the time and had a PC magazine on subscription which did a feature on the Elan Enterprise. I was in ore of the spec etc but didn’t think it actually materialised.
There was the Oric 1 as well. Ended up going to a Spectrum and then Amstrad with disk drive & 4 colour EGA monitor, then Amstrad PC compatible with dual floppy and hard drive on a card in the back, before jumping over to PC compatible IBM 8086 with mfm hard disk and MSDOS, Win 3.0.
Then to Redhat Linux 4.0 on PI, then Redhat 5.1 on PII , then Gentoo when it arrived on the scene, on a PII waiting 5 days to compile Gnome & KDE from source. Fantastic!