Abortive
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The Spectrum+, introduced in 1984, was essentially a Product Facelift, replacing the rubber keyboard with a plastic one, modeled after the failed Sinclair QL (an abortive attempt to create a business machine to compete with the IBM PC), and fixing some graphics bugs.
Source: Useful Notes / ZX Spectrum
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