I give Escom a lot of credit for what they were able to accomplish (without them there'd be far fewer 4000Ts in the world and NOS supplies of 1200s would be long, long gone), but there was too much momentum lost regarding engineering. Even if the Walker had reached production I'm not sure it would have had enough power by the time it would have been available.
Yep Escom did a 'good job' (far better than anyone else to-date), apparently they even thought about reviving the CD32 but their market research dept advised them it would be a waste of time due to the imminent arrival of a certain game changing console from Sony.
