Talk:Amateur Computer Club

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because : 1. ACC was probably the very first computer club in the world, inspiring many people to start working with microcomputers in the UK and abroad. In my opinion this is historically significant.

2. Without the efforts of Mike Lord interest in microcomputers and personal computers would have been much slower to start. This is comparable to the efforts of early Radio Amateurs. I noticed you do have an article for the Radio Society of Great Britain (although it's hard to find from radio amateur :-

3. I found an article in the English Wikipedia about Hobby Computer Club (Netherlands), that was inspired by ACC and was founded only in 1977. Also there's an article for the Homebrew Computer Club, and several other computer clubs (often local ones). See list of Users' groups. So a national organisation, even if extinct, merits being described.

I have uploaded the ACC logo now and intend to add it to the ACC article. The Homebrew Computer Club boasts a scan of the first page of their first newsletter, so I'm considering to do the same for ACCN. It will 'prove' that ACC was active as early as 1973. Also I intend to add the note published in Wireless World, that was the first publication of this initiative.

&mdash; Opa-dick (talk) 14:25, 9 January 2012 (UTC)


 * @Opa-dick I was the last chairman of the ACC. I can't remember when the club was wound up, but membership had declined to such an extent that it was no longer viable. I had previously been the editor of the newsletter, and contributions had declined, which was another factor in the club's demise.
 * Leon Heller 5.80.249.56 (talk) 17:19, 24 August 2023 (UTC)