Homebrew Computer Club



I was one of the 32 people in Gordon French's garage on March 5th, 1975 for the first meeting of what would become the Homebrew Computer Club.  I was working then at SLAC, and Frank Rothacker and I arranged for the club to meet first in the Orange Room at SLAC and later, as attendance grew, in the main auditorium.

I have many of the original newsletters, which were edited by the late Fred Moore for the first six months and then by Robert Reiling.  Those that I have so far found I have scanned into medium resolution JPEG images of the individual pages.  Each is about 500KB at (mostly) 1700x2200 pixels.  You may look at them here, along with some images of related documents that happened to be in the same file folder.

-- Len Shustek

There was a reunion of some of the original Homebrew members on March 5th, 2001.  Here is a photo from that event, courtesy of  Henry Polard through Bob Lash:

Homebrew 3/5/01 reunion
From left to right:
 Front Row: Len Shustek, Gordon French, Marty Spergel, Bob Lash, Ralph Campbell, Mike Carlisle, Walter Bryant, George Oetzel, Harry Garland, Allen Baum, Lee Felsenstein, Dennis Allison (head turned), Gene Wallace.
Back Row: Roger Melen, Bob Marsh, Fred Balin ( mostly hidden) .