引言编辑本段回目录
家酿计算机俱乐部（theHomebrew Computer Club）是一个电脑爱好者组织，在70年中期直接催生了第一台个人电脑，也助力点燃了硅谷的计算机革命之火。史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克（Steve Wozniak）是它的成员，他们从70年代中期开始在加州湾区（the Bay Area）定期碰面。1976年，史蒂夫·沃兹尼使用俱乐部内自由共享的信息，制作了第一台个人电脑苹果Ⅰ （the Apple Ⅰ ），使人们无需专业水平就能使用它。此前开始制作“蓝盒子”，并用这种装置侵入电话系统。其中，两名成员一个绰号“伯克利蓝”(即Steve Jobs)，另一个绰号“橡树皮”（即Steve Wozniak），他们后来创建了苹果电脑。
1975年3月5日，一群技术天才在硅谷的一个汽车库里成立了家酿计算俱乐部（Homebrew Computer Club），他们发誓要想西部牛仔“酿私酒”一样，酿造出个人计算机，他们的工作方式就是合作和共享。虽然这个俱乐部本身没有成为一家伟大的公司，但事实 上正是他们推动了世界上第一台个人计算机的诞生。
时势造英雄编辑本段回目录
在“牛郎星”8800问世后，美国西部的一些民间电脑团体纷纷涌现，他们兴致勃勃谈论的焦点就是个人电脑，“卷起袖子，为你自己做一台电脑”，成为发烧友们很流行的话语。他们干脆在专业杂志上发表文章，后来又觉得不甚过瘾，干脆自己办刊物。1975年1月，第一期《大众电子》杂志刊登了“牛郎星 8800”的封面广告，这一期使比尔盖茨永生难忘的《大众电子》封面，也使那些他和保罗更热心个人电脑的发烧友们，欢呼雀跃，如醉如痴。
就这样，发烧友们把微电脑的热情点燃，火借风势，风借火威，霎那间，微电脑真像野火一样烧开来。1975年3月，在加州冒出来一个电脑俱乐部，名字很怪，叫“家酿”（Homebrew，全称the Homebrew Computer Club）。美国自南北战争开始，一只有禁酒法，不准私家酿酒尤其势烈性酒，二战后，“垮掉的一代”和“嬉皮士”风起后，有人开始蠢蠢欲动，民间私酿风又起，人们把这种酒叫“Homebrew”。“家酿俱乐部”里都是自己做电脑的发烧友，“Homebrew”一词最和脾胃。
俱乐部成员大多聚会的地点是斯坦福校园，而俱乐部中斯坦福大学学生也不少。与斯坦福大学关系不小的有两家公司，第一个是太阳微系统公司（SUN Microsystems），SUN是Standford University Network斯坦福网络，阿帕网sun也有积极开发过，但他们最值得赞的是美丽的JAVA语言；第二个值得提的是硅谷图形机（SGI），是该校教授Jim Clark于1982年“下海”创办的，1994年辞职去另立山头，1996年SGI公司以7.5亿美元巨资收购著名的超级计算机厂家克雷公司，开发出Blue Mountain超级计算机，起内存1.5TG，每秒执行4万亿次浮点运算，是世界上最快的超级计算机。
因此，家酿俱乐部中的佼佼者，必将是IT业的奇才，果然，在俱乐部会员中，有一位不久做出了惊人之举，他就是与Jobs一起创办苹果电脑公司的巫师Steve Wozniak。巫师是加州本地人,与硅谷一同出生和生长,自小就对各种电子元件器材感兴趣,又有数学方面的才能。他第一台作品是用废旧线料做的“奶油苏打”电脑，他还利用自己的技术盗打过国际长途，一直达到梵蒂冈，向教皇表示忏悔。
在家酿俱乐部里，巫师很有名气，虽然他寡言少语，但深知电脑精髓之处，言必有中，往往出人意料。巫师事业有成，在当时有名的惠普公司做工程师，且技术精湛，善出怪招。在一次聚会中，他建议打字机当键盘，用电视机做显示器，然后与“牵牛星8800”组合成一台全新的电脑，一座皆惊。这个构想，就是日后，伟大的“苹果一号”个人电脑的设计思路。因此，他有“巫师”之称，是有道理，有依据的。
1975年3月5日历史性的聚会编辑本段回目录
1975年3月5日，计算机爱好者团体的先驱，家酿计算机俱乐部，在一间硅谷车库里举行第一次聚会，这是一次历史性的聚会。30年后的2005年3月5日，当年的毛头小伙如今都已经头发花白，他们召开了30年特别纪念会。
这次聚会，是堪称硅谷电脑革命的一次引爆。行业先锋将从这批爱好者中脱颖而出，比如苹果两位创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯和史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克以及又名危机船长的黑客约翰·德雷珀。
这次聚会始于一张贴在电子公告牌（软木塞实物）只给geeks的广告传单。“您正在装配自己的计算机？终端？电视打字机？I/O设备？或其他一些数字黑色魔术匣？假如这样的话，您可能喜欢过来聚一聚。”。这寥寥几句话就在家酿计算机俱乐部，也称为业余计算机用户组发起了首次聚会。科技爱好者聚集在这一场合，分享电源贴士并交流程序设计资讯。
3月5日家酿俱乐部第一次在加州门罗公园戈登·弗伦奇的车库内见面。这时候，市场上只有一种个人电脑：基于Intel 8080微处理器的Altair 8800。约有32人出席第一次会议。两个月后，这支队伍已经增加到100多个人。
第一次会议本身相当平凡。会议谈论的常常是标准、输入端口和需要更适合8080的操作代码。这对聚集在那里的工程师和软件程序员是司空见惯的。
最大的问题是人们在家里将如何对付电脑？提出来的潜在应用并不少：文本编辑、存储、游戏、教育用途，甚至使用这种系统控制家中的实用设施，如报警、取暖和自动喷水灭火系统。鉴于当时大约只有2,000台PC在使用，这非常激进。
3月5日聚会活动安排和参加人员名单编辑本段回目录
Evening's Program
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| 30年后再相聚 |
6:30 - 7:25
SMUG club events. [You do not need to be present or at your reserved
seats.]
7:25 - 7:30
Short Break
7:30 -
Homebrew Presentation
a. Fred Balin, Intro Remarks [2-3 minutes]
b. Lee Shustek, "Before the Altair 8080" [10 minutes]
c. "Triumph of the Nerds" Video Clip [7 minutes]
d. Roger Melen w/Altair [20 minutes]
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| 1976年9月号 |
e. Gordon French, Homebrew Beginnings [15 minutes]
f. Bob Marsh, Altair Add-Ons [5-7 minutes]
g. Lee Felsenstein, Homebrew Evolution [20 minutes]
[ 1-2 brief audience questions after each presentation.]
[ When presenter finishes, he moves to table at side with live mike to add
commentary/support/perspective for follow-on speaker(s)]
h. Other Original 32 members are introduced and join presenters
i. Other Original 32 members are mentioned (i.e., Woz, Tom Pittman), and/or
remembered (Fred Moore, Bob Reiling) [Lee may bring a slide or two.]
j. Photo Op 1: Homebrew Orignals Around the Altair
k. Other Notable Early Homebrewers introduced and join group: Roger, John
Draper, Jim Warren (if he comes), and others.
l. Photo Op 2: Vintage Homebrew
STATUS OF THE 32
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| 2001年再聚会 |
Bob Lash (coming)
Fred Moore (dec. 1997)
Mike Freemont (coming)
Jim Mehl (?)
Ron Rovelle (?)
Marty Spergel (out of town, unable to reach him)
John Calhoun (?)
Walter Wallis (?)
Mike Carlisle (coming)
Bob Albrecht (can't come)
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| 2001年 |
Chuck Zierdt (?)
Keith Birtton (?)
Gordon French (coming)
Len Shustek (coming)
D. Bowles (?)
Robert Baer (?)
Steve Dompier (contacted by Lee; may come)
Tom Pittman (can't find him)
Kim Harris (?)
John Neves (?)
Allen Baum (coming)
Steve Wozniak (will be in D.C. to receive Heinz Award)
Robert Reilling (dec. 1999)
Lee Felsenstein (coming)
Bob Marsh (coming)
George Oetzel (coming)
Walter Bryant (contact him; not sure if he's coming)
Ken McGinnis (?)
James Stark (?)
Jikm Hartford (?)
Rulph Campbell (?)
Larry Platzek (?)
家酿俱乐部通讯第一期文字版编辑本段回目录
Vol. 1, #1, March 15, 1975
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| 家酿电脑俱乐部通讯第一期样刊 |
AMATEUR COMPUTER USERS GROUP
HOMEBREW COMPUTER CLUB... you name it.
Are you building your own computer? Terminal? TV Typewriter? I/O device?
Or some other, digital black-magic box?
Or are you buying time on time-sharing service?
If so, you might like to come to a gathering of people with likeminded interests.
Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever…
This simple announcement brought 32 enthusiastic people together March 5th at Gordon’s garage. We arrived from all over the Bay Area---Berkeley to Los Gatos. After a quick round pf introductions, the questions, comments, reports, info on supply sources, etc., poured forth in a spontaneous spirit of sharing. Six in the group already had homebrew systems up and running. Some were designing theirs around the 8OO8 microprocessor chip; several had sent for the Altair 8800 kit. The group contained a good cross section of both hardware experts and software programmers.
We got into a short dispute over HEX or Octal until someone mentioned that if you are setting the switches by hand it doesn’t make any difference. Talked about other standards: re-start location? Input ports? Better operating code for the 8080? paper tape or cassettes or paper & pencil listings? Even ASCII should not be assumed the standard: many 5 channel Model 15 TTYs are about and in use by RTTY folks. Home computing is a hobby for the experimenter and explorer of what can be done cheaply. I doubt that standards will ever be completely agreed on because of the trade-offs in design and because what’s available for one amateur may not be obtainable for another.
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| 俱乐部通讯各期 |
Talked about what we want to do as a club: quantity buying, cooperation on software, need to develop a cross assembler, share experience in hardware design, classes possibly, tips on what’s currently available where, etc. Marty passed out M.I.’s Application Manual on the MF8OO8 and let it be known that he could get anything we want. Steve gave a report on his recent visit to MITS. About 1500 Altairs have been shipped out so far. MITS expects to send out 1100 more this month. No interfaces or peripherals are available until they catch up with the mainframe back orders. Bob passed out the latest PCC and showed the Altair 8800 which had arrived that week (the red LEDs blink and flash nicely). Ken unboxed and demonstrated the impressive Phi-Deck tape transport.
What will people do with a computer in their home? Well, we asked that question and the variety of responses show that the imagination of people has been underestimated. Uses ranged from the private secretary functions: text editing, mass storage, memory, etc., to control of house utilities: heating, alarms, sprinkler system, auto tune-up, cooking, etc., to GAMES: all kinds. TV graphics, x - y plotting, making music, small robots and turtles, and other educational uses, to small business applications and neighborhood memory networks. I expect home computers will be used in unconventional ways--most of which no one has thought of yet.
We decided to start a newsletter and meet again in two weeks. As the meeting broke up into private conversations, Marty held up an 8008 chip, asked who could use it, and gave it away!
NEXT MEETING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19th, 7 PM at Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Conference room, Arastradero Road in Portola Valley. Look for this road sign: D C Power Lab
家酿俱乐部开启新的黑客时代编辑本段回目录
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| SLAC Auditorium, 1979 |
黑客的早期历史至少可以追溯到20世纪五六十年代.麻省理工学院（MIT）率先研制出“分时系统”，学生们第一次拥有了自己的电脑终端。不久后，MIT学生中出现了大批狂热的电脑迷，他们称自己为“黑客”（Hacker），即“肢解者”和“捣毁者”，意味着他们要彻底“肢解”和“捣毁”大型主机的控制。1961年，拉塞尔等三位大学生，在PDP-1上编制出第一个游戏程序“空间大战”。其他学生也编制出更多更“酷”的玩艺，例如象棋程序、在分时系统网络里给别人留言的软件等等。MIT的“黑客”属于第一代，他们开发了大量有实用价值的应用程序。
60年代中期，起源于MIT的“黑客文化”开始弥散到美国其他校园，逐渐向商业渗透，黑客们进入或建立电脑公司。他们中最着名的有贝尔实验室的邓尼斯·里奇和肯·汤姆森，他俩在小型电脑PDP-11/20编写出UNIX操作系统和C语言，推动了工作站电脑和网络的成长。MIT的理查德·斯德尔曼后来发起成立了自由软件基金会，成为国际自由软件运动的精神领袖。他们都是第二代“黑客”的代表人物。
1975年，爱德华·罗伯茨发明第一台微型电脑“牛郎星”。美国很快出现了一个电脑业余爱好者在汽车库里组装微电脑的热潮，并组织了一个“家酿电脑俱乐部”，相互交流组装电脑的经验。以“家酿电脑俱乐部”为代表的“黑客”属于第三代，他们发动了一场个人电脑的革命。史蒂夫·乔布斯、比尔·盖茨等人创办了苹果和微软公司，后来都成了重量级的IT企业。
新一代“黑客”伴随着“嬉皮士运动”出现。艾比·霍夫曼是这代黑客的“始作俑者”。霍夫曼制造了许多恶作剧，常常以反对越战和迷幻药为题。1967年10月，他领导了一次反战示威，号召黑客们去“抬起五角大楼”。他还创办了一份地下技术杂志TAP，告诉嬉皮士黑客如何在现存的体制下谋生，并大量介绍电话偷窃技术。
从70年代起，新一代黑客已经逐渐走向自己的反面。1970年，约翰·达帕尔发现“嘎吱船长”牌麦圈盒里的口哨玩具，吹出的哨音可以开启电话系统，从而借此进行免费的长途通话。他在黑客圈子里被叫做“嘎吱船长”，因盗用电话线路而多次被捕。苹果公司乔布斯和沃兹奈克也制作过一种“蓝盒子”，成功侵入了电话系统。
苹果故事，家酿俱乐部的第一传奇故事编辑本段回目录
然而，家酿俱乐部的故事将永远与苹果如何起步的传说交织在一起。俱乐部成员史蒂夫•沃兹尼亚克24岁就完成将变为Apple I和II个人电脑的基本设计。他在俱乐部会议上开始展示电路原理图，并要求反馈意见。
他从俱乐部成员，也是高中朋友的史蒂夫·乔布斯得到反馈意见：你的想法不要免费白送。沃兹尼亚克听从了。这二位很快就合作创办苹果。
到1977年为止，家酿计算机俱乐部定期举行会议达两年，然后才逐渐消失。但它留给硅谷的遗产继续存在。
在上个世纪的70年代，电脑还仍然只是大公司、企业中昂贵的生产资源，它们被安放在有空调的屋子里，只有少数的技术人员才能动它，一般人是无法随意使用的。但电脑这种东西毕竟已日益为人们熟悉，一些年轻人开始不甘寂寞了，他们开始几个人聚在一起，在几块电路板上琢磨着加上些元件，组成一些类似于电脑的机器以满足自己的好奇心。“家酿电脑俱乐部”就因此而活跃。20岁的乔布斯和25岁的沃兹便是最忠实的会员。
乔布斯是一个孤儿，自小的无依无靠形成了他狂放不羁、敢作敢为的性格，但他又是一个素食主义者，尤其喜欢吃苹果。有几年，他在俄勒冈附近的苹果园为人打工谋生。回到硅谷后，他找到童年时最要好的伙伴沃兹，并在沃兹的感染下对电脑产生了浓厚的兴趣。沃兹这时候已是惠普公司的一名工程师，对电脑更是着迷得不行。两个人那时候还是快乐的单身汉，沃兹每天下班后来到乔布斯的车库，两个人在这里玩他们的电脑，他们也经常携手参加“家酿电脑俱乐部”的活动。由于沃兹在惠普公司任工程师，近水楼台，在技术上自然会比旁人技高一筹。乔布斯的本事更体现在他那与生俱来的对新事物敏锐的洞察力和雄辩的说服力，这对搭档成了电脑俱乐部的核心人物。1975年，沃兹受到电视图像的启发，在实验室中制成了一种能在电脑屏幕上显示简单彩色图像的芯片，他拿不定主意是否把芯片装到自己的电脑上，惠普公司的生产主管也不允许他在公司的实验室中进行他的这项工作。乔布斯得知后，对沃兹说：“为什么不把你的实验室搬到家里来呢?”他亲自去找惠普的生产主管，也不知用了什么办法说服了他，主管最后允许沃兹把相应的仪器设备也可以借回家。
沃兹叙述当年历史编辑本段回目录
我在家酿俱乐部会后展示过几次那台运行BASIC的电脑。大家觉得很不错，但有一个问题，“苹果Ⅰ”没有永久性存储器，没有你现在看到的电脑常配的硬盘驱动器或软盘磁动器，更没有CD驱动器。所以，每次运行BASIC程序，不得不打开计算机，从小本子上逐字输入。这个程序有4000个字节长，每次输入需要50分钟。因为没有永久性存储器，只有RAM，一关掉计算机，整个程序就丢了。这意味着：要么把电脑永远开着——我没办法随意搬动电脑，要么就另寻解决之道。
这就是我为“苹果Ⅰ”研究出磁带存储器的原动力。自1975年春我在家酿俱乐部展示初始设计以来，把RAM从静态变成动态是唯一的改变。我设计的线路让普通磁带也能存储BASIC。当我打开计算机时，自动载入我的BASIC，计算机就进入了备用状态。
一旦准备好了BASIC解释器，就可以轻松从磁带上装载。但是，我原以为BASIC所有版本都相似，只要把书中101个BASIC游戏输入，就能自动运行，结果却发现根本不是这样。我发现，我写的BASIC解释器基于惠普，而比尔·盖茨的却基于DEC。真惨！
我告诉过你的，我曾为之头大的BASIC语言，最初是作为一个易于编程的语言而设计的。1963年在达特茅斯学院由教授约翰·克门尼(John Kemeny)和托玛士·克兹(Thomas Kurtz)创建，BASIC是“初学者通用符号指令”(Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)的缩写。毫无疑问，BASIC是一门易学的语言，比Pascal或C容易，小一点，运行速度慢一点。但是我的第一台苹果电脑上配合得天衣无缝。
所以，如果有人想把这些游戏放进苹果电脑，就必须相应修改一下这些游戏。尽管如此，我还曾设法给苹果电脑再找些可以运行的游戏。当时有一款相当受欢迎的BASIC游戏，叫《星球大战》，就像那部电影一样。我改编了一下BASIC解释器，让这个游戏运行起来毫无障碍。
在我们开始向保罗·特瑞尔卖板卡时，我们夜以继日地加班工作，就为了及时交货。那次，我赚到了一笔做梦也没想到的钱。忽然间这些小生意赚得比我在惠普的收入还多。我们以220美元的成本价组装机器，以500美元的批发价卖给保罗·特瑞尔。
当然，我们也不需要大把的钱来运营企业。我白天有一份全职工作，可以挣点零花钱。而斯蒂夫住在家里。那时，我25岁，而他刚21岁，我们都没有什么生活负担。苹果不需要赚太多钱就可以维持自身的运转和发展。毕竟，我们无需给自己发薪水也不需要付房租，而且我们也不需要支付任何专利费或律师费。这是个小本买卖，我们没有任何需要提心吊胆的事情。
我爸爸一直在密切关注着这件事，他指出，我们并没有真正的赚钱，因为我们没给自己发薪水。但我们不在乎，觉得事情足够好玩。
1976年3月，在我们给保罗·特瑞尔发货后，斯蒂夫安排我在家酿俱乐部聚会上展示“苹果Ⅰ”的主板。那之前的几个月，我已经在每次正式会议后演示了计算机，但是还从未在整个小组里正式展示过。
当然，我也没有在这么多人面前讲过话。那时，家酿俱乐部已经发展到超过500人。这次会议在斯坦福大学的线性加速器中心的大礼堂举行。我手里拿着印刷电路板，穿过过道，站在那儿，只是陈述了一下事实。我一生中只有两次这样在家酿俱乐部的聚会上发言——另一次是在我介绍“苹果Ⅱ”时。
我知道，这个俱乐部许多人之前看过我的演示，这次，我只是站在每个人面前，讲解板卡上每块芯片的功能，再谈谈架构和规格，以及我如何搭建这个系统。我还讲到了它的主要特点——便于人工输入的键盘，而不是一堆灯和开关组成的仪表面板，后者笨重而且难于理解。我说过，我用动态RAM替代了静态的RAM及其原因；并指出，我的板卡有8KB大小的RAM，“牛郎星”的主板却只有256字节的RAM。我也谈了自己的BASIC小程序——让你输入的名字满屏幕跑的那个。我还描述了视频线路、连接器、需要的电压等细节。最后，我告诉在场的每个人，它的售价是666.66美元。
我不太清楚那次演示的效果，你可以问一下当时听过讲话的人。毕竟，那时家酿俱乐部的大部分成员，不是在小的计算机公司工作，就是自己经营着一家小公司，所以大家可能并不觉得苹果有什么特殊。
但是我为之感到骄傲，斯蒂夫也有同感——我们感到十分骄傲。
这是历史上最大的一次变革，我们有幸已参与其中。在我看来，它不一定非要成为什么大生意，只要我觉得开心就足够了。
我猜，另一个合伙人朗却不觉得有那么好玩。他适合大公司和高薪的工作。我们把第一批板卡发给保罗·特瑞尔后，在获得第一笔外部投资前，就以800美元的价格赎清了朗的股份。
盖茨和微软成为家酿俱乐部传统的杀手编辑本段回目录
早期的微机用户都是一群穿牛仔裤、听摇滚乐、不满现实、怀着将“计算机还给人民”的信念，图谋改变世界的年轻人。他们依靠俱乐部和展销会，彼此交流，互购产品。他们拒绝赤裸裸的商业，他们不像盖茨那样野心勃勃，追逐财富和成就，而是出于某种信仰，一种痴迷的爱好。当时最著名的家酿俱乐部，就主张开放制度，向所有的人免费传播软件编码和内部运行情况。正是这种开放的理想，促成了早期的PC业，因为他们是早期最主要的消费者、发明者、革新者和制造者。 盖茨一方面赞同这种理想，因为可以帮助他的软件形成广泛的标准；但另一方面，他又不愿让自己的软件成为免费午餐，他要开启一个钱眼。
起初，爱好者们对硬件兴趣浓厚，软件只是眼中的配角。大家从来没有意识，要花钱买别人的软件。他们编写软件，不是为了商业利益，甚至不是为了使用计算机，而是为了显示机器的能耐而已。因此在他们眼中，软件仅仅是一种玩具，甚至还不是工具，更不是商品。 早期盖茨和艾伦也只能从开创性的工作中更多地体会创造的乐趣，而不是财富的滚滚到来。但是盖茨会等时机一到，来向大家收钱的。 盖茨是第一个提醒人们重视软件非法复制问题的程序员，也是盖茨结束了家酿俱乐部所倡导的开放传统（如今这一传统又由Linux得以复兴）。后来，盖茨也反复使用这个伎俩：先让大家用上他的软件，上瘾后，再收钱！
1976年1月，盖茨写了一封“致业余爱好者的公开信”，发表在“家酿俱乐部通讯”和其它一些地方。信中指责对Basic的广泛非法复制行为，并将这样做的业余爱好者称为是贼。这封信成了微软发展的旗帜和宣言。 生意是好的，而且很好。但盖茨的嘲骂并不起作用，因为大家对他将Basic语言标出500美元的天价，更为不满。他们看不出这么高的定价有什么依据。 后来，软件业一次又一次试图用盖茨的手段来保护他们的软件。但具有讽刺意味的是，大多数公司仍把非法复制作为开拓市场的手段，包括微软自己。因为没有一定程度的开放性（也就是非法复制传播），任何一个新产品都无法获得足够的市场动力。那些挥舞着大棒的，都是为了已经成功地确立了市场地位的产品。 微软为软件业的发展确立了新的规则，这是未来软件业发展的极大动力。但是微软也给自己留下了许多“后洞”。可以说，今天软件业的许多游戏规则都是微软自己制定的。出于公司的商业利益，这套规则漏洞百出，也是情有可原的。比如盖茨赖以扬名立身并最终发家致富的Basic语言，是60年代达特默斯学院的两位教授创造的。而微软起飞的翅膀DOS，更是基尔代尔的“临摹品”。
30年以后再聚会编辑本段回目录
2005年3月5日，是家酿俱乐部第一次聚会的30年纪念，聚会名称为“Homebrew@30”。这一天，沃兹等当年的老朋友济济一堂，怀念历史，畅谈现在，展望未来。大家还切开了一个大蛋糕，乐趣无穷。
30年来，大家都已经不再年轻。虽然功成名就，但是，当年的激情已经不再！
30年，产业已经翻天覆地，新的互联网革命也早已经深入。没有多少人再回头关注30年的老黄历了。毕竟，那是PC革命的萌芽阶段，现在的年轻人已经不可能有兴趣了。他们在如火如荼的互联网中只关注现在，只关注未来。而历史，很可能变成年老者的一种回忆而已。
在互联网行业，回忆是一种奢侈。但是，真正有思想的人们，依然会从历史中寻找到自己的今天，洞察到我们的未来。
Homebrew@30聚会的主要人员包括如下（简介和照片）：
Lee Felsenstein
Lee Felsenstein
(From Wikepedia)
Lee Felsenstein (born 1945 in Philadelphia) is a computer engineer who was the designer of the Osborne 1, the first portable computer. As a young man, he was a New Left radical and wrote for the Berkeley Barb, one of the leading underground newspapers.
Before the Osborne, Lee designed the Z80 based "SOL" computer from Processor Technology, the PennyWhistle modem, and other early "S-100" era designs. These existed in a market space with early generation hobbyist microcomputers from Morrow Designs, Cromemco, MITS (Altair), and other vendors.
Many of his designs were leaders in cost reducing computer technologies for the purpose of making them available to large markets. His work featured a concern for the social impact of technology. The "Community Memory project", with which he was affiliated, was one of the earliest attempts to place networked computer terminals in such places as Berkeley supermarkets to attract casual use by persons from all walks of life passing through and facilitate social interactions among non-technical individuals, in the era before the Internet
Felsenstein received a BSEE from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972.
Lee's personal page is http://www.nerditude.com/
Michael Holley
Michael Holley
Michael has been interested in electronics since he was 10 year old. While in the U.S. Navy he purchased the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In 1978 he transferred to Seattle University and the Northwest Computer Society. Members there included Bob Wallace (latter of Microsoft) and Joe Felsenstein (Lee's brother.)
He is the author of two books on Programmable Logic (PLDs and FPGAs) and has written CAE software for the past 25 years. In 2000 he pulled his Southwest Technical Products Corp (SWTPC) 6800 Computers out of the closet and started a web site to preserve all of the SWTPC documents.
Michael Holley and the Homebrew Computer Club
Between 1975 and 1977 he attended the College of San Mateo and the Homebrew Computer Club. Michael's SWTPC web site is at: www.swtpc.com/mholley. Michael kindly provided us with many of the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters we have now in our online exhibit. 
Len Shustek
Len Shustek
Len Shustek’s educational background is in computer science (M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University) by way of physics (B.S., M.S., Polytechnic University in Brooklyn N.Y.). After graduation he joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor of computer science.
In 1979 he co-founded Nestar Systems Inc., an early producer of networked client-server computer systems. In 1986 he co-founded Network General Corporation, a manufacturer of network analysis tools, notably "The Sniffer™." The company became Network Associates Inc. after merging with McAfee Associates and PGP. Shustek is now semi-retired and serves on the boards of several high-tech startups and three non-profit organizations.
He teaches occasionally as a consulting professor at Stanford University, and is a partner at VenCraft, a small "angel financing" venture capital fund. He is also a trustee of Polytechnic University, and chairman of the board of trustees of Computer History Museum.
Len Shustek and the Homebrew Computer Club
Len (Lenny in the day) was a key facilitator and member of the Club having secured the auditorium at the Stanford AI Lab and SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) for meetings following the first one which occured in Gordon French's garage. Out of his early Club experiences Len went on to form a number of companies and do a number of firsts. Len kindly provided us with many of the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters we have now in our online exhibit. See also: Len's pages on the Homebrew Club and the 2001 reunion. 
Bob Lash
Bob Lash
Bob Lash was among the youngest at the first meeting of Homebrew in Gordon French's garage, and greatly enjoyed building a homebrewed 12-bit minicomputer with a 30-bit wide micro-control store using about 100 wire-wrapped TTL chips. He also wrote an assembler and compiler for it. Bob later received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and an MD degree from UC San Diego. He co-founded a number of medical device ventures, and then in 1995 co-founded WebChat, a 3 million member online community which was acquired by Infoseek and integrated into Disney's GO.com. Today he is VP of Engineering at ViOptix by day, and a volunteer member of the PDP-1 restoration team at the Computer History Museum by night.
For more biographical details on Bob, please see:
http://www.bambi.net/bob.html
Bob Lash and the Homebrew Computer Club
Bob Lash's Homebrew Computer Club History can be found at:
http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html 
Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak
A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and Apple II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators.
In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for “single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.”
Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak “adopted” the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.
Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.
Steve's main personal page is at http://www.woz.org/
Woz and the Homebrew Computer Club
Woz attended the many of the meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club and it was there he met Steve Jobs and together they fomed Apple Computer, Inc. in 1976. You can read about what Woz was up to in our early issues of the Homebrew club newsletter.
Allen Baum
Allen Baum
Allen has been interested in computers since the day he ran into a guy named Steve drawing circuit diagrams for a minicomputer in the high school library, attended the first Homebrew meeting in Gordon French's garage, financed the first run of Apple I's, and co-wrote parts of the Apple I and Apple II monitor ROM.
Allen is a Principal Engineer at Intel working on enterprise processor and platform architectures. He's also designed microprocessors at Digital Equipment Corp. and Compaq Computer in the StrongArm (SA1500)
and Alpha (EV7 and EV8) processor design groups, at Apple (Apple II, ARM processors for Newton, and one you never heard of) and at Hewlett-Packard (PA RISC architecture and HP-45 calculator). He also has a life, and hobbies that don't have anything to do with computers.
He received his BSEE and MSEE from MIT in 1974. He a member of IEEE, is past chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers and Hot Chips conference, and is named on over 17 patents (so far) in the area of processor architectures. 
Moderator and Introducer: Bruce Damer
Bruce Damer is co-founder and Curator of the DigiBarn Computer Museum in the Santa Cruz Mountains of the Bay Area of Northern California. He has a passion for both the history of visual computing and a practice in the virtual worlds business as CEO of DigitalSpace Corporation and the author of the first book on Avatars and multi-player games on the Internet. Bruce will introduce the Homebrew@30 panel with a brief presentation and then pass it on to MC Lee Felsenstein. Working with DigiBarn crew Bruce will also bring some historic running Homebrew hardware for hands-on experiencing during the VCF. More about Bruce's wacky life here.
Bruce Damer and the Homebrew Computer Club
Bruce never attended a single Homebrew club meeting but was actually staying in Sunnyvale, California on a school exchange from his hometown of Kamloops, BC, Canada, during the time of the first Homebrew meetings in March-April of 1975. At ths tender age of 13 he was a "prema-nerd" (premature nerd) focusing mainly on cartooning as a medium of graphical expression whilst designing board games of strategy as a means of algorithmic expression. During the late 70s he started hanging around the Canadian versions of early computer clubs and reading magazines and wondering what "superfloppy" meant. His graphical algorithmic mind was finally engaged when he met a PDP-11 in college and from there, well, more about Your Curator here and on his personal and biz life here.
参考文献编辑本段回目录
家酿官方网站：http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html
30年后聚会网站：http://www.digibarn.com/history/05-VCF8-HomeBrew30/index.html
沃兹主页：http://www.woz.org/
维基百科词条：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club
文章：1975年3月5日:点滴家酿使硅谷兴奋 家酿计算机俱乐部第一期通讯
沃兹著作《iWoz》
《硅谷之火》（Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer）
家酿成员怀念文章：http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html
Lee Felsenstein and the Homebrew Computer Club
