Information Sources
Information about this project was gotten from several sources.
Websites
https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:Keyword/COMPANY/JDC/Q1
https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Q1_Microlite
https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/q1.html
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/28/the-first-microcomputer-the-q1/
People
Name |
URL/email |
Role |
|---|---|---|
Karl-Wilhelm Wacker |
Former employee at Q1 corporation |
|
Mattis Lind |
Work on restoring data from old floppy disks |
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Morten Jagd Christensen |
Works on the Q1 Emulator |
|
Peter Andersen |
Q1 history, manual and ROM archive |
|
Poul-Henning Kamp |
Work on Q1 floppy disk digitisation |
|
Roland Langfeld |
technikum29 computer museum |
|
Achim Harald Baqué |
Owns two Q1’s (gotten from Mattis Lind) |
Manuals
If the scanned manuals contain page numbers, I will always refer to these. If not, I will instead refer to the page count of the pdf document itself.
Title |
Description |
|---|---|
First Q1 system brochure.pdf |
Specs., keyboard layout |
Q1 Advanced PL1 Programmers Manual (March 1977).pdf |
Data and instruction format descriptions |
Q1 ASM IO addresses usage Q1 Lite.pdf |
IO addresses |
Q1 Assembler.pdf |
Q1 assembler, z80 opcodes, IO addresses |
Q1 Lite Mainboard Schematics Original.pdf |
PCB Schematics, rom addresses for ICs |
Q1 Lite System Overview.pdf |
Specs., Q1 Lite keyboard layout |
Q1 LMC System Software Manual.pdf |
PL/I manual, System Software, Key descriptions |
Q1 ROS Users Manual.pdf |
Memory and function addresses, Keyboard codes, disk module, record format |
If no description the document is identical with documents from the above table.
Title |
Description |
|---|---|
First Q1 system brochure (PDF) |
|
Q1 ASM IO addresses usage Q1 Lite |
|
Association of Computer Users binder 3.0 (Test and review of the Q1 Lite (1979) |
Benchmark report |
Q1 Advanced PL1 Programmers Manual (March 1977) |
|
Q1 LMC System Software Manual |
|
Q1 ROS Users Manual |
|
Q1 Sales Brochure |
Marketing material |
The Q1 Lite MC System (Oct 1977) |
Same as ‘Q1 Lite System Overview’ in previous table |
Q1-Lite Schematics (Thanks to Karl Wacker for these!) |
Same as ‘Q1 Lite Mainboard Schematics Original’ above |
Q1 Microlite Sales brochure (Oct 1980) |
broken link to peel.dk |
Q1 Microlite single-page sales brochure (Oct 1980) |
broken link to peel.dk |