Employees & People | |
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| Employee Count | According to Bob Frazier (see below), Q1 had about 500 employees as of the early 1980s. By 1989, Frazier, Glen, and a receptionist were running the company out of Glen's garage. |
| Daniel Alroy | The founder, President, and CEO of Q1 from 1970 to 1979. R.I.P., 1930-2021. |
| Karl W. Wacker | Former Q1 engineer from around 1974 to 1981; has provided very useful information. |
| Rick M. Smets | First hired Q1 engineer and Board of Directors member from 1972 to 1975. |
| Ron Sommers | Vice President of Q1 around 1973, and negotiated a deal with Nixdorf Computer AG. |
| Roy Schwartz | Marketing manager for Q1 around early 1973; appeared in early magazine mentions. |
| John Steefel | Senior System Analyst at Q1 as of around 1974-1975. |
| Victor R. Steiner | Australian co-founder and director of Q1's Hong Kong division from 1973 onwards. |
| Donald P. Sellari | Systems programmer for Q1 from 1979-1982; implented CP/M for the Z80 Q1/Lite. |
| Mark Bellon | Former Q1 programmer from 1978-1981; worked on serial utilities and a C compiler. |
| Gregory Blake | Field service and bench technician for Q1 from around 1974 to 1980. |
| David Kavanaugh | Microprocessor programmer and debugger developer for Q1. |
| Charles Castelli | Technical presentations and support agent for Q1 around 1977. |
| Andy Lee | Technical presentations and support agent for Q1 around 1977. |
| Bob Frazier | Field service and testing technician who was one of the last three Q1 employees in 1989. |
| Glen Malm | Replaced Alroy as President in 1980 and ended up running Q1 out of his garage. |
| Joe Prevete | Technical writer for Q1 from 1980-1982. |
| Susan Hoffman | Employee of an unknown position at Q1 around 1973. |
| Morton Jaffe | Instated as Q1's CEO in 1993; perhaps the last Q1 employee. |
| Al Rosenbaum | Resume manager at Q1 in 1972. |
| "Mr. Anderson" | Another hiring manager at Q1 in 1972. |
| C. S. Ho | General Manager of Taiwan Automation Co., who distributed Q1 systems around 1974. |
| Barb Medlin | Personal assistant for Daniel Alroy around 1973. |
| Minny Driessen | Daisy Sys. Holland employee who installed Q1s for the UK's NEB from 1978-1979. |
| Bob Norman | Early job applicant to Q1 around 1973, and "almost went to to work for them." |
| Jim Bennett | Exhibitor of Q1 systems in Paris, France, at around the turn of the 1980s. |
| Gunnar Lilienberg | Developer of programs for the Q1/Lite in the early 1980s. |
| Other Q1 Employees | From Mark Bellon's recollection: Hope, Sandy, Coleen, John, Charles (Castelli?) |
| Other Q1 Engineers | Many other Q1 engineers are listed in the various schematics for their systems. |
| Daphne Alroy-T. | Daniel Alroy's daughter; looking for Q1 info. Contact: daphnet123[at]gmail[dot]com |
| Heinz Nixdorf | Founder and President of Nixdorf AG, a company which purchased Q1 outright in 1974. |
| Gus Roche | Vice President of R&D at Datapoint, whom Alroy convinced to develop the 2200 terminal. |
| Phil Ray | President of Datapoint, whom Alroy convinced in 1971 to allow Intel to release the 8008. |
| Prof. Carver Mead | CIT professor with whom Alroy spoke about Moore's Law and LSI semiconductor tech. |
| Robert Noyce | Inventor of the integrated circuit and co-founder of Intel, with whom Alroy met. |
| Jim Walden | Managing Partner of Philips, Appel & Walden, who gathered seed capital for Q1 in 1969. |
| R. H. Curtin | Director of Facilities at NASA who attended Q1's technical seminars in 1977. |
| Isidore Langert | An early investor in Q1 in 1972; later sued them in Langert v. Q-1 Corp. in 1974. |