
	Where results make sense

Topic: Homebrew computer club

Related Topics

Computer club

Steve Wozniak

Computer games

Apple Computer

Apple I

Apple III

Steve Jobs

Apple Lisa

Apple Macintosh

Timeline of hacker history

Apple Newton

Mac OS X

Microsoft Windows

Bill Gates

Amiga games

	Homebrew And How The Apple Came To Be
		The computer magazines started carrying lists of all the microcomputers coming out, and they'd describe all the characteristics-how much memory, which processor, was it assembled or was it a kit, what was its price.
		Everyone attending the club in 1975-76 knew there was a big computer revolution occurring and the rest of the world wasn't aware of it yet.
		Home computers are akin to any store-bought item: they vary in durability according to manufacturer, model, and wear and tear, and they have to be treated with a bit of respect.
	www.atariarchives.org /deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php (2721 words)

	Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Homebrew Computer Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The attendees of the Homebrew Computer Club were hackers, as nearly any computer enthusiast had to be in those days.
		The people involved in the Homebrew Computer club wanted to build their own machines, and they did so by cobbling together existing parts, including the Altair computer kit, computer chips, such as the Intel 8080, or any other electronic hardware equipment.
		The Homebrew Computer Club was so successful that within a year the meetings had moved to a hall rented from Stanford University in Silicon Valley.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=1&DicID=17634&RefType=Encyclopedia (433 words)

	Homebrew Computer Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist club in Silicon Valley, which met (under that name) from March 1975 to roughly 1977.
		The first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club was held in March 1975 at a member's garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California.
		The Homebrew Computer Club's newsletter was one of the most influential forces in the formation of the culture of Silicon Valley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club (605 words)

	Apple Computer
		Woz completed the machine and started taking it to the meetings at the Homebrew Computer Club, where he could often be seen showing off the latest addition to the system.
		With both cash and a new case design in hand, the Apple II was released in 1977 and became the computer generally credited with creating the home computer market.
		Meanwhile various groups within Apple were working on a completely new kind of personal computer, with advanced technologies such as a graphical user interface, computer mouse, object-oriented programming, and networking capabilities.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ap/Apple_computer.html (1543 words)

	Homebrew Computer Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The legendary Homebrew Computer Club was the first of its kind, and provided an early impetus for the development of the microcomputer industry in Silicon Valley.
		The club attracted many hobbyists and was attended by nearly 750 people one year after its foundation.
		The Homebrew Computer Club is the place where the roots of many Silicon Valley microcomputer companies are located.
	www.silicon-valley-story.de /sv/pc_homebrew.html (185 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - Computer programmer George Morrow died
		Computer pioneer George Morrow has died at the age of 69.
		George Morrow was active in the homebrew computer club in the 1970s.
		When my dad and I were homebrewing a 6800-based system back in the early 70s, George let us borrow the PC board layouts for his memory cards so we could modify them for our system's bus.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2003May/wbc20030509019937.htm (1037 words)

	Boing Boing: Homebrew Mobile Phone Club for DIY phone hobbyist fun
		The Homebrew Mobile Phone Club is a new organization modelled on the Homebrew Computer Club, the seminal Silicon Valley hobbyist organization that gave birth to the personal computer.
		The Homebrew Computer Club convened a place where hobbyists turned the inconceivable into the practical and now we have all the technology that's followed since, from the Osborne to the Apple ][+ to today's screaming-fast laptops.
		I'm announcing the formation of the "Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club." Our purpose is to provide support and guidance for individuals building their own "convergence devices." We're going to have monthly meetings where we discuss designs and applications with the idea that two heads is frequently better than one.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/04/16/homebrew_mobile_phon.html (358 words)

	G4 - The Screen Savers - Homebrew Computer Club, Remote-Control Xbox, Answers to Your Questions
		He also designed the Osborne 1 portable computer and an electricity-free Wi-Fi- and Linux-based wireless network for the war-ravaged villages of Laos.
		Though no longer involved in Apple's business, Woz is still involved in computer education for kids, teaching classes and helping schools set up computer labs and curricula.
		Woz, Steve Jobs, and Adam Osborne were all part of the Homebrew Computer Club of the mid-'70s.
	www.g4tv.com /screensavers/episodes/2218/Homebrew_Computer_Club_RemoteControl_Xbox_Answers_to_Your_Questions.html (560 words)

	Inventing the PC, 1975-86, by Bob Lash - MemoryArchive
		My first exposure to computers was at age 6 (1963), as a subject in Dr. Patrick Suppes' accelerated mathematics experiment at Stanford.
		The second meeting of Homebrew was held in an old school house, and Steve Dompier brought in his Altair, and put a transistor radio on top of it.
		Dan Sokol, an original homebrew member, came by to visit me (and my homebrew machine, of course!) on October 16, 2004 as part of an interview with a Japanese journalist who was writing a book about the history of the PC.
	www.memorywiki.org /en/Memoir_of_a_Homebrew_Computer_Club_Member (2567 words)

	West Coast Hackers and the Homebrew Computer Club
		A democratic, open-source atmosphere characterized the Homebrew Computer Club and had always been present in the hacker community.
		Many members of the club had day jobs at firms like Hewlett-Packard, and Douglas Thomas notes, in Hacker Culture, that "hacking flourished in the computer labs of MIT, Cornell, and Harvard in the 1960s and 1970s.
		The commodification of the Apple Computer, as well as the formation of Microsoft Corporation in 1977, ensured that hardware and software would no longer be free for the taking.
	www.slais.ubc.ca /courses/libr500/04-05-wt2/www/B_Olmstead/1970s.htm (407 words)

	a potted history of computers - the sixties and seventies
		Throughout the 1960's and 1970's golden age of computing, open source software, largely funded by the US government, was the wellspring of creation for the programming industries.
		Years before personal computers and desktop information processing became commonplace or even practicable, Douglas Engelbart had invented a number of interactive, user-friendly information access systems that we take for granted today: the computer mouse, windows, shared-screen teleconferencing, hypermedia, groupware, and more.
		The key to the whole computer project was the microprocessor chip itself, the 8080 from Intel.
	www.hodgy.net /computer_history/page_2/page_2.htm (4732 words)

	Vintage Computer Festival
		What a time and what a Club it was, so we are coming together on November 5th, 2005, to cut a cake, toggle in a boot loader or two and hear from some of the members of the group that compiled for us the nerd world in which we are all seemingly permanently uploaded.
		Bruce Damer, producer of the Homebrew Retrospective and curator of the Digibarn Computer Museum in the Santa Cruz mountains, will be the moderator of this panel discussion involving original Homebrew Computer Club members.
		Dave Freeman, founder of Advanced Computer Products, one of the oldest and longest running retail computer establishments in the world, will be discussing the computer collection that he began in the late 1970s, which is now one of the largest in the world.
	www.vintage.org /2005/main/speaker.php (978 words)

	Homebrew Computer Club
		The excitement at homebrew was electric, and during the period of '74 to '76 I constructed a working 12-bit microprogrammed minicomputer (see photo) using a 30-bit micro-control store entirely out of about 100 SSI/MSI TTL wire-wrapped chips, which (thanks to the understanding of my wife) I still have in the garage.
		Homebrewers were treated to free copies of the Silicon Gulch Gazette.
		A Homebrew Computer Club reunion was held on March 5th, 2001 at SLAC (thanks to the efforts of the Stanford-Palo Alto Macintosh Users's Group) and many of the "Homebrew 3/5/75 Originals" attended (see the program and Gordon French's guest list here).
	www.bambi.net /bob/homebrew.html (2727 words)

	History of Computing Industrial Era 1976 - 1977
		Computers are characterized by mainly electronic models and were fully programmable.
		That summer in 1975 at the Homebrew Club the Intel 8080 formed the center of the universe.
		It is on the Homebrew Computer club in Palo Alto, California (Silicon Valley), that Steve Wozniak, 26 years old, working at Hewlett-Packard and a long time hacker, wished to have his own computer.
	www.thocp.net /timeline/1976.htm (1738 words)

	SD Times - Recalling the Homebrew Computer Club
		The reunion last month marking the 30th anniversary of the Homebrew Computer Club was every bit as frenetic as the monthly meetings all those years ago, where the Apple 1 came to life and where the free software movement found its roots.
		The Homebrew Computer Club reunion, like the meetings themselves, was essentially a controlled shouting match in which Felsenstein would wave a yard stick at various members who wanted to ask questions.
		The Homebrew Club’s rampant anti-establishment mentality came to a head when the group received an irate letter from Bill Gates, who was angry that club members were passing around copies of his BASIC language for the Altair computer.
	www.sdtimes.com /article/story-20051201-03.html (1257 words)

	Wikinfo \| Apple Computer
		Apple Computer is a large, multinational corporation whose main business is computer technologies.
		The 6502 was designed by the same people who designed the 6800 (like many in Silicon Valley, they left their employer in disgust to form their own company) and his earlier 6800 paper-computer needed only minor changes to run on the new chip.
		Recently, Apple has introduced Mac OS X, a new version of their operating system that finally marries the stability, reliability and security of Unix with the ease of use of the Macintosh interface in an OS targeted at professionals and consumers alike.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Apple_Computer (1638 words)

	Homebrew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radio Homebrew - a common term in Ham Radio referring to building an alternative to a commercially available piece of equipment or accessory by hand.
		Homebrew (Paul Lansky album) - by Paul Lansky
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homebrew (104 words)

	Homebrew Computer Club
		The store, Allied Computer, was owned by Chet Harris and he gave me a job assembling computer kits for customers.
		I was attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club by this time.
		I built a portable computer by adding a Bay Area TVT board and a SWTPC keyboard in a small case.
	www.swtpc.com /mholley/Homebrew/Homebrew.htm (528 words)

	Apple 1 computer
		Encouraged by the other computers entering the market, he created his masterpiece, and took it to the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto California to show it to some of the other members.
		His friend and fellow Homebrew Computer Club member Steve Jobs loved it, but had a few improvement in mind.
		Excited by their success, Woz went on to design the Apple II - one of the greatest computers of all time.
	oldcomputers.net /applei.html (1077 words)

	Stacking Fault: Homebrew Computer Club 30th Anniversary
		The 2005 Vintage Computer Festival will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Homebrew Computing Club.
		The HCC was a group of microcomputer enthusiasts who in the mid-70's eschewed the popular conception of the time that computers were large, expensive and remote.
		if you were a member of the HCC, have a recollection of someone that was or simply twiddled with homebrew computers in the 70's, this might be of interest to you.
	www.cryptonomicon.net /msh/2005/10/homebrew-computer-club-30th.html (197 words)

	Apple II History Chap 2
		At the Homebrew Computer club in Palo Alto, California (in Silicon Valley), Steve Wozniak, a 26 year old employee of Hewlett-Packard and a long-time digital electronics hacker, had been wanting to build a computer of his own for a long time.
		Impressed with this compact computer, Veit had his techs install the Apple-1 in an attache' case, and along with a 9-inch monitor and keyboard, he and his wife attended a dinner meeting of the New York Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.
		With several Apple-1 computers in operation at the show, the small size and speed of its cassette interface attracted quite a bit of attention, in spite of the fact that there were two other 6502-based computers on display at the show (the KIM-1 and the Baby computer).
	apple2history.org /history/ah02.html (3664 words)

	The Home Brew Computer Club
		I would put the start of the computer revolution at about 1974, or at least within a year of that.
		It was the first computer kit you had to solder together and build yourself.
		Everyone cheered and that Homebrew Computer meeting was one of the most amazing experiences I've had.
	www.webcrunchers.com /crunch/Play/comp_rev/home_brew.html (1110 words)

	microsoft's timeline from 1975 - 1990
		A local computer dealer owner who agreed to sell the units required that they were assembled which was not the norm for customers buying computers at the time.
		A transition of significant proportions -from mainframe to personal computing- was also underway, supported by the evolving de facto standards that were beginning to emerge in the PC marketplace.
		Character-based technology was simple but it could be fast, because to the computer the screen appeared as a small character grid, typically 80-by-25 blocks of pixels (and the original PC even had a 40-character mode, displayable on a television).
	www.thocp.net /companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm (7950 words)

	30 years of the Homebrew Computer Club - ZDNet UK
		Throughout the afternoon panel session, Wozniak and fellow club pioneers Lee Felsenstein, Bob Lash, Allen Baum and Michael Holley regaled the audience of several hundred — at least 100 of whom were standing along the walls of the overcrowded meeting room — with tales of the Homebrew club's history.
		To some present on Saturday, the Homebrew Computer Club was emblematic of the unique atmosphere made possible in the Bay Area in the mid-1970s.
		Throughout the session, the panellists kept the audience laughing with anecdotes illustrating the light-hearted nature of the club and of the community of computer hobbyists in mid-1970s Silicon Valley.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /hardware/0,1000000091,39235919,00.htm (993 words)

	Computer Industry - Apple
		Steve Jobs realized that there was a market for a packaged computer as opposed to a kit -- there were many more hobbyists who could fiddle with software than individuals capable of assembling their own computer.
		The Apple 2 followed in 1977, but these computers were still viewed by corporate America as toys.
		This program would visually show on the user's computer screen the calculated results of each change, so he called it VisiCalc (The VisiCalc concept was further enhanced and developed into modern spreadsheet programs like Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel).
	faculty-gsb.stanford.edu /mendelson/computer_history/APPLE.HTM (405 words)

	Wired News: DIY Phone Club Channels PC Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fledgling organization owes its name and inspiration to the famous Homebrew Computer Club of the 1970s, which many historians now credit with innovations that paved the way for the personal computing revolution.
		Lee Felsenstein, co-founder of The Fonly Institute and onetime moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club, points out that "the parallels are not exact" between the clubs.
		But he adds that the Homebrew Computer Club was about "dealing with forbidden knowledge." (For a video clip about the club click here.) The degree of information sharing was a hallmark of the club and paved the way for today's open-source movement.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,70929-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 (914 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)