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Cleaning Crew Discovers One of the World's Oldest Surviving Desktop Computers

Last December, employees at Just Clear, a London-based house clearance company, were emptying a property when they stumbled across two decades-old computers.

At first, the workers were unsure what they had uncovered. They didn’t recognize the items and couldn’t find any relevant information online, Just Clear’s founder, Brendan O’Shea, tells Live Science’s Keumars Afifi-Sabet. After speaking with an expert, however, O’Shea learned that his team had found rare pieces of technology history: a 1972 Q1 desktop microcomputer with an internal printer and a 1976 Q1 Lite with an external companion printer.

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