Together they attended meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club - a group of computer hobbyists.

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Thus, boiling mad, Gates writes a letter to the free-software bums at the Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, Calif.

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They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club.

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Indeed, such was the crossover that Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak belonged to a group of hackers and hobbyists called the Homebrew Computer Club.

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It was in the summer of the Bicentennial, when Steve Wozniak, wanting to impress his friends at the homebrew computer club, set about building the Apple I and set the PC revolution in motion.

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The vanguard of this group was a motley set of people who styled themselves as the Homebrew Computer Club, which would probably qualify as the first industry association for the computer and electronics business.

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"I call it Homebrew Health, " says one angel investor, alluding to the Homebrew Computer Club of the 1970s, the group of electronic enthusiasts, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, whose technology hobby led to the birth of the personal computer.

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