"If one could find a specific date for birth of personal computing, it would be May 5 1966, when Stephen B Gray founded the Amateur Computer Society and began publishing a quarterly called the _ACS Newsletter_" (BYTE 1978) archive.computerhistory.org/re

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"The main reason for the existence of the ACS is to enable amateur computer builders to help each other, saving time and money by trading ideas."

"The simplest computer for which the schematics are available is the Univac FLODAC, which is actually a fluid-logic demonstrator."

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