With the decrease of support and a lack of availability of the Timex computers, many Sinclair followers have been looking forward to the U.S. introduction of the Sinclair Quantum Leap (QL). While some reports of disappointment with the new computer have been filtering in from Englaad (where the QL was finally released earlier this year), many of us have been optomistic, However, the September issue of BYTE features the closest thing to an in-depth review that we have yet seen, and the news is not good.
London computer reviewer, Dick Pountain reports problems with the microdrives, Operating system, SuperBASIC, the keyboard and more. His biggest complaint was with delivery delays in Great Britain. Sinclair began taking orders in January 1984, promised delivery in 28 days, had shipped only 300 machines by May, at which time the waiting list was around 13,000.