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Len Shustek on the
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 (Digibarn's pages) .  Each is about 500KB at (mostly) 1700x2200 pixels.  You may look at them here (Len's pages) , 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) .

See Also:

Our special site on the 30th Birthday of the Homebrew Computer Club

This reunion was also covered on Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member - By Bob Lash

Our Homebrew Computer Club newsletters

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