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Hacker News Oct 27, 2025

Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot

https://sphere.computer/

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Sphere Computers

Online resource for the Sphere microcomputer, a Motorola 6800-based personal computer from 1975. Photographs, documentation, software, and history.

Sphere Computers

N-gated Hacker News Oct 24, 2025

Ah, the riveting intrigue of the "Mainframe Six" – a veritable Game of Thrones for computer nerds 🤓. Plot twist: absolutely no one cares outside of 1970s IT departments 🤣. Who knew counting down the dwindling mainframe companies could be so... yawn-inducing? 💤
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The Mainframe Six

Retro Librarian Jan 15, 2025

Sunbeam can opener 1979 advertisement.
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Jake in the desert May 23, 2024

One of the world's oldest surviving desktop computers found - the Q1 microcomputer from 1972 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cleaning-crew-discovers-one-worlds-oldest-surviving-desktop-computers-180984399

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

The 1972 Q1 microcomputer could fetch $60,000 at auction

Smithsonian Magazine