Editing Homebrew Computer Club (section)

==Newsletter==
[[File:Homebrew Computer Club Sep1976.png|thumb|right|Club newsletter, September 1976]]
The Homebrew Computer Club's newsletter was one of the most influential forces in the formation of the culture of [[Silicon Valley]]. Created and edited by its members, it initiated the idea of the [[personal computer]], and helped its members build the original kit computers, like the Altair. One such influential event was the publication of [[Bill Gates]]'s "[[Open Letter to Hobbyists]]", which lambasted the early hackers of the time for violating the copyrights of commercial software programs.<ref>[http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/10/102702231-05-01-acc.pdf Oral History of Lee Felsenstein] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227091722/http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/10/102702231-05-01-acc.pdf |date=December 27, 2014 }}. Interviewed by Kip Crosby. [[Computer History Museum]] 2008, CHM Reference number: X4653.2008</ref>

Paul Terrell, partner in Repco who was the exclusive sales rep company for MITS in Northern California, was a member of the club and would provide information at the meetings about the progress of the Altair 8800 in the factory and provide copies of the MITS Newsletter to members.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}} He later started Byte Shop, an affordable computer store in Mountain View, California, and bought the first 50 Apple I Computers from [[Steve Jobs]] and Steve Wozniak after they did a demonstration of the Apple I at a meeting at SLAC.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005240.html |title=The Man Who Jump-Started Apple |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511184229/http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005240.html |archive-date=May 11, 2011 |first=Harry |last=McCracken |date=August 23, 2007 |work=[[PC World]] |url-status=dead |access-date=February 25, 2019 }}</ref>

The first issue of the newsletter was published on March 15, 1975, and continued through several designs, ending after 21 issues in December 1977. The newsletter was published from a variety of addresses in the early days, but later submissions went to a P.O. box address in [[Mountain View, California]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/newsletters.html |title=Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters, 1975–1977 |website=[[DigiBarn Computer Museum]] |access-date=February 25, 2019}}</ref>

The second volume began on January 31, 1976, and included sections for A LETTER FROM MITS, CASSETTE UPDATE, TINY BASIC, MEETING FACILITIES, SOFTWARE, PROBLEMS, MEETING-1, and ALTAIR 680.