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Two of the world's first desktop PCs discovered during routine home cleaning

Only three of the Intel 8008-powered Q1 PCs are known to still exist
In a nutshell: Even in this connected era where anything of value already seems to be on eBay, amazing discoveries are being made. In London, a routine house cleaning by a waste company uncovered two of the world's first desktop PCs, released back in the early 1970s, of which only three are known to still exist today.