Amateur Computer Club

He published a note in the popular electronics magazine Wireless World with a proposal to write to him if one liked the idea of having a Computer Club.

[3] The primary way to support the members in their hobby was the ACC Newsletter (ACCN), with varied information pertinent to amateurs building, learning, using or just plainly interested in computers.

ACCN1 contained a description of the instruction set of a simple 10-bit computer designed by one of the first members: Ian Spencer.

This machine had been demonstrated earlier in March 1973 at a meeting of the Surrey Radio Contact club in Croydon.

In ACCN vol 2 iss 3 of August 1974, the start of a new club was announced: Association Française des Amateurs Constructeurs d´Ordinateurs (AFACO) by J-C Ribes in Meudon, France.