The Q1 desktop microcomputer, the world's first microcomputer that was uncovered in storage boxes by accident by cleaners at Kingston University in London, is going on the auction block at Heritage ...

Quiz time, what was the first commercially available microcomputer? The Altair 8800? Something obscure like the SCELBI? The Mark-8 kit? According to [The Byte Attic], it was actually the Q1, based on ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Kaypro 2000 was the company’s ...

A few weeks ago, I was browsing Tindie on one of my daily trawls for something interesting to write about. I came across something I hadn’t seen before. The Mensch Microcomputer is a product from ...

However, that processor gives the Q1 the claim to being the world's first true microcomputer two years before the better known MITS Altair 8800. "It is a real bonus being able to feature two Q1s – the ...

BOULDER CREEK, Calif.--I have seen the world's first microcomputer, and it is not the Altair. For years, any serious discussions about the earliest microcomputers had to include the Altair 8800, the ...

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn't offer much, but it's the small start of a big trend toward small things. A small New Mexico company -- with the big name of Micro ...

The world's first desktop microcomputer, the Q1 model, is being auctioned at Heritage Auctions. Cleaners discovered this significant artifact in storage boxes at Kingston University in London, which ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Not long after Intel introduced its ...

Microsoft co-founder, Paul G. Allen, announced today plansfor a museum exhibit in Albuquerque,NM , which will document thehistory and impact of the microcomputer. The 3,000-square-foot ...