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the first meeting of the club was in March 1975 and was the result of a flyer made by Gordon French, who along with Fred Moore, with purpose of discussing the Altair 8800. -
by the second meeting over forty people came and was held at the Stanford AI lab. This was the meeting where the name became official.
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Steve Dompier successfully controlled low-frequency radio broadcasting by switching bits from location to location inside the Altair.
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Fred Moore was all about sharing and viewed the club's purpose as information sharing. This differed from the majority of the members. Lee Felsenstein took over running the forum.
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Bob Marsh and Gary Ingram promote their memory board at the third meeting and the members were accepting of the idea
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April 11, 1976 the Apple 1 was debuted. Stephen Gary Wozniak had the intention of sharing the design freely but Steve Jobs told him he should sell it. -
Paul Allen and Bill Gates sell their Basic software to Micro Instrumentation Telemetry System which made many of the HBCC members mad.
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Bob Marsh and Lee Felsenstein design the Sol computer. It has a typewriter-style build in keyboard and video display. The Sol-20 was shown in Atlantic City in Shelbourne hotel. Called Sol after Les Solomon who originally suggested the design.
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the Apple Company has a half-dozen or so employees. Wozniak eventually leaves HP company to work at Apple with Jobs.
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Jim Warren organizes a computer faire on the west coast. The Apple 2 would be showcased at this faire. At this time Apple wasn't taken seriously but had managed to secure prime space for advertising and promoting Apple 2.
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Nov. 11, 2013 living members of Homebrew computer club reunite in Silicon Valley.