Prior to that, the term hacker was simply a referral to any computer hobbyist.

A decade ago, on-line services were the turf of computer hobbyists.

He wrote an angry letter to the computer hobbyists.

- in 1977, only 50 stores catered to computer hobbyists; by 1983 there were 30,000.

At the same time, several computer hobbyists were taking efforts in "ripping" this music out of the games.

On-line information services, having begun with hard-core computer hobbyists, also report huge growth rates.

With a royalty due of $30 per copy, Gates felt that the computer hobbyist were stealing money from him.

He worked in the electrical engineering field for 40 years and is an avid computer hobbyist.

In short order the Web, which three years ago was little more than a research tool for physicists and computer hobbyists, has flourished.

In the mid-1970's he became a computer hobbyist and began self-publishing on computing.