Q4 is also a time when all companies can take a look ahead to the next year’s Q1, building on the lessons learned in the current year to set up reasonable targets for the upcoming year.

The Altair 8800? Something obscure like the SCELBI? The Mark-8 kit? According to [The Byte Attic], it was actually the Q1, based on the Intel 8008 processor. The first Q1 microcomputer was ...