Rarest computer found among junk: its price stunned
In 2023, employees of the London cleaning company Just Clear found two rare Q1 computers from 1972 while cleaning a house. One of them, a model with a built-in printer, sold at auction for £37,179 ($49,080).
In 2023, employees of the London cleaning company Just Clear found two rare Q1 computers from 1972 while cleaning a house. One of them, a model with a built-in printer, sold at auction for £37,179 ($49,080). Also sold were a later model Q1 Lite for £8,316 ($10,977) and a separate printer for £1,175 ($1,551). The Q1 is considered the first fully integrated desktop computer, released four years before the Apple 1. Today, only three surviving Q1 units are known, two of which were found in this house. Before the auction, the exact market value of such computers was unknown, as they had not previously been put up for auction.