I really wanted a Cantab Jupiter Ace, the looks of a ZX80, but with Forth instead of BASIC... But I went with a Memotech MTX500 instead.
Yes, I remember MSX. There was a long row of different MSX models one of the electronic stores in Crawley (Dixons?). Sony, Hitachi and a few others. Exotic designs, but they never took off. That was a Microsoft project, by the way.