World's 1st PC rediscovered by accident in UK house clearance nearly 50 years after last sighting
Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: Just Clear) (Image credit: Just Clear) (Image credit: Just Clear) (Image credit: Just Clear) (Image credit: Just Clear) Two Q1 microcomputers, widely considered to be the first single-microchip PCs , have been found by house clear ers in the U.K. The discovery brings the total number of known surviving units to three in the world. Employees from the house - clear ing company Just Clear found the two Q1s buried under several boxes while clear ing out a property, Just Clear's founder Brendan O'Shea told Live Science in an email. These two models were last used by an oil drilling company in the 1970s, and the other known model's location is thought to be somewhere in Scandinavia, O'Shea added. Just Clear employees initially had no idea what they had found. O'Shea then consulted with an expert, who told him these devices were the world's first fully integrated desktop computers powered by a single-chip microprocessor. The Q1, m...