The Sinclair Quantum  Leap was a bit of a disaster from the beginning, missing release dates, then being released before all the problems had been ironed out leading to lots of machines failing.

All this said the when the machine was right it was a great machine and had lots of  loyal fans it was built round the 68008 processor at a clock speed of 7.5 MHz and with 32k of  ROM (expandable to 64k) containing Sinclair Super BASIC and the QDOS operating system. The standard RAM is 128k expandable to 512k.

The display has 2 modes TV & Monitor, in monitor the text is displayed 85 characters on each of the available 25 lines, the graphics have a resolution of 512 x 256 with 4 colours or 256 x 256 with 8 colours.

The interfaces included 2 x Serial RS232, 2 x Joystick, Microdrive, LAN, TV and RGB. the QL came with 4 software packages by Psion these were Quill a word processor, Abacus a spreadsheet, Archive a database and Easel a graphics package all these are well documented in the QL manual.