The Q1-lite at Helmond Home Computer Museum

The Q1-lite as seen in this blog post by Robert Bernardo

Here’s the page from the museum itself:

Here’s a picture from the brochure:

Hackaday calls the Q1 a first:

Computer timeline article on Daniel Alroy explains it thusly:

his Q1 Corp. became the first company to develop a complete, standalone, microcomputer system, integrated with a screen, keyboard and floppy drives. It was first delivered on 11 December 1972

and adds

The Q1/Lite was an improved multi-purpose system (see Q1 Sales Brochure), which can be used as a terminal for mainframe computers, for data entry, engineering, word processing, etc. In 1974, Computer Science Corporation made a study of microcomputer systems for NASA. Based on the recommendation, the Q1/Lite computer systems were installed in all eleven NASA bases. Later Q1 Co. put into production third generation of the Q1 system, which used the Z80 processor, and fourth generation, using a 68000 CPU

More at wikipedia

For a previous mention of the Q1, see this previous thread
“Whence Came the Personal Computer” (talk)

For more on the museum, see also previous threads
Home Computer Museum in Helmond (the Netherlands)
[Youtube] Dutch Home Computer Museum: Tektronix 4051, Aesthedes
Marcin Wichary: I visited three different Dutch computer museums last week

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