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Encyclopedia: Homebrew Computer Club

The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist club in Silicon Valley, which met (under that name) from March 1975 to roughly 1977. Several very high-profile hackers and IT entrepreneurs emerged from its ranks, including the founders of Apple Computer.

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Homebrew computer club

The first meeting of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club was held in Silicon Valley. Its first... founders. Soon after this first homebrew computer club, other hobby computer clubs emerged located all over the world. For example, The Netherlands homebrew computer club emerged with members meeting near...

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Stanford Linear Accelerator

Lepton SLAC's meeting facilities provided a venue for the homebrew computer club and other pioneers of the 1980s home computer revolution, and later SLAC hosted the first webpage in the U.S....

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Altair BASIC

within the Homebrew Computer Club. When Gates and Allen finished Altair BASIC, they wanted to sell it... — the first programming language for the world's first truly personal computer, the MITS Altair...). Written by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff, without access to an actual Altair computer...

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Adam Osborne

his interest in computers and technical writing. Osborne was known to frequent the famous Homebrew Computer Club's meeting around 1975. He was best known for creating the first portable computer, the..., and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. Born in...

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Steve Jobs

California and began attending meetings of the "Homebrew Computer Club" with Stephen Wozniak. He... Steve Wozniak) and CEO of Apple Computer. He is also regarded as a pioneer in computing for seeing the commercial potential of the GUI and mouse in a Xerox PARC demonstration and leading Apple Computer...

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Tiny BASIC

, written primarily by Dennis Allison, a member of the Computer Science faculty at Stanford University. He was urged to create the standard by Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club. He had seen BASIC on... they called the People's Computer Company. In December 1975, Dick Whipple and John Arnold created an...

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Steve Wozniak

within the scope of the Palo Alto-based Homebrew Computer Club, a local group of electronics hobbyists... initiating the entry of computers into private homes. Although his contribution may be seen as a... mass-produced computer, Stephen Wozniak's ingenuity and relentless creativity made him uniquely...

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Apple Computer

he started attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. He was inspired by what was going on.... Wozniak completed the machine and started taking it to Homebrew Computer Club meetings to show off... Corporate logo of Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Computer, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company based...

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History of computing hardware (1960s-present)

Homebrew Computer Club developed, where hobbyists met to talk about what they had done, exchange... visitor to Homebrew Computer Club meetings, designed the Apple I, a single-board computer. With... History of computing Before 1960 1960s to present Operating systems The history...

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