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CrosscurrentsBook It: Big ideas with a legendary tech designerDesigner Lee Felsenstein is legendary. He’s one of the Electronic Frontier Foundations’ "Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier"; a Laureate of The Tech Museum in San Jose; and a Fellow of the Computer History Museum. His new autobiography is "Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future."
2025-08-0708 minCrosscurrentsBook It: Big ideas with a legendary tech designerDesigner Lee Felsenstein is legendary. He’s one of the Electronic Frontier Foundations’ "Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier"; a Laureate of The Tech Museum in San Jose; and a Fellow of the Computer History Museum. His new autobiography is "Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future."
2025-08-0708 min
Solartopia Green Power & Wellness HourSolartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 5.22.25
Waldport, Oregon, Fights for Democracy While Attacks on Voting Rights Proceed in Georgia
Our esteemed Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens the Green Grassroots Emergency Election Zoom with one of her great poems: “A Thousand Grains of Sand”.
We pay homage to BROOOCE SPRINGSTEEN and his stellar defense of democracy as well.
We follow with MAYOR HEIDE LAMBERT of Waldport, Oregon and her astonishing parallel fight for democracy.
In the wake of a meeting with Christie Brinkley and Alec Baldwin, the legendary KARL GROSSMAN tells us the Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is now pushing nuke power in N...
2025-05-232h 09Solartopia Green Power & Wellness HourSolartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 5.15.25FASCIST ATTACKS ON MAYORS, JUDGES & MORE; QR CODES FOR MAJOR RALLIES; PLANNING FOR A PROGRESSIVE FUTURE
We start with our great poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN & her usual mystic verse.
From Waldport, Oregon, we hear from ousted & now re-instated MAYOR HEIDI LAMBERT about her incredible saga on the way to remaking this pivotal spot in the American MAGA/saga.
This far-and-wide astonishing attack on democracy by the MAGA Klan is dissected by co-host MIKE HERSH.
Tough questions come from SCOTT KLATT who wants to know why Heide let herself get drafted f...
2025-05-162h 12Solartopia Green Power & Wellness HourSolartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 5.8.25FASCIST ATTACKS ON JUDGES & A MAYOR * CINCO DE MAYO * WINNING ECO-BATTLES
We start with “Kidnapping the Rubicon” from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
The duly elected MAYOR HEIDE LAMBERT of Waldport, Oregon has been arrested by a fascist city council in an attempted coup; the activist progressive Mayor shares her amazing tale as we hear her plans to get re-instated.
Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH assures us all that the fight-back will inspire deep regrets among the Trumpist attackers.
LAProgressive.com editor-publishers SHARON KYLE & DICK PRICE...
2025-05-092h 12
Floppy Days Vintage Computing PodcastFloppy Days 146 - Interview with Dan Bricklin, VisiCalcInterview with Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper FutureVision Research Hello, and welcome to episode 146 of the Floppy Days Podcast, for December, 2024. I am Randy Kindig, your host for this podcast. This month I'm staying with the recent interview theme, as I continue to get the opportunity for interviews with some amazing icons from the early personal computer days. This month, that person is Dan Bricklin, co-developer of the iconic VisiCalc software that helped kickstart...
2024-12-241h 26
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast#684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & CountercultureA full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media. Covering everything from the Berkeley free speech movement, the counterculture movement, his career, through to Obsorne and how he invented social media with Community Memory.
His book: https://www.amazon.com/Me-My-Big-Idea…
https://felsensigns.com/
00:00 – Full 3 hour talk with Lee Felsenstein
08:24 – University of California at Berkeley, and the Free Speech Movement.
29:04 – First Junior Engineer job at Ampex
36:20 – The first hackathons with Richard Greenblatt
37:33 – Hackers, Heros of the computer re...
2024-12-1000 minThe Amp Hour Electronics Podcast#684 – Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & CountercultureA full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media. Covering everything from the Berkeley free speech movement, the counterculture movement, his career, through to Obsorne and how he invented social media with Community Memory.
His book: https://www.amazon.com/Me-My-Big-Idea…
https://felsensigns.com/
00:00 – Full 3 hour talk with Lee Felsenstein
08:24 – University of California at Berkeley, and the Free Speech Movement.
29:04 – First Junior Engineer job at Ampex
36:20 – The first hackathons with Richard Greenblatt
37:33 – Hackers, Heros of the computer re...
2024-12-1000 min
The Amp HourThe Amp Hour #684 - Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & CountercultureA full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media. Covering everything from the Berkeley free speech movement, the counterculture movement, his career, through to Obsorne and how he invented social media with Community Memory. His book: https://www.amazon.com/Me-My-Big-Idea... https://felsensigns.com/ 00:00 - Full 3 hour talk with Lee Felsenstein 08:24 - University of California at Berkeley, and the Free Speech Movement. 29:04 - First Junior Engineer job at Ampex 36:20 - The first hackathons with Richard Greenblatt 37:33 - Hackers...
2024-12-102h 58
Plutopia News NetworkLee Felsenstein: Big IdeasIn this episode of the Plutopia News Network podcast, engineer Lee Felsenstein shares his experiences with the Homebrew Computer Club, a pioneering group of technology enthusiasts in Silicon Valley during the early days of personal computing. Felsenstein debunks the myth that the counterculture was solely responsible for the personal computer revolution, describing a diverse group of members, including engineers, doctors, and entrepreneurs. He reflects on the organic development of computing and his role in designing the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer. Felsenstein also discusses the broader social and community impact of technology, his efforts with the Community Memory...
2024-11-111h 07
Plutopia News NetworkLee Felsenstein: Big IdeasIn this episode of the Plutopia News Network podcast, engineer Lee Felsenstein shares his experiences with the Homebrew Computer Club, a pioneering group of technology enthusiasts in Silicon Valley during the early days of personal computing. Felsenstein debunks the myth that the counterculture was solely responsible for the personal computer revolution, describing a diverse group of members, including engineers, doctors, and entrepreneurs. He reflects on the organic development of computing and his role in designing the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer. Felsenstein also discusses the broader social and community impact of technology, his efforts with the Community Memory...
2024-11-111h 07
Command Line Heroes en españolComputadoras personales: La Altair 8800 y el amanecer de una revoluciónGracias a la Altair 8800 tenemos computadoras en la mayoría de nuestros hogares hoy en día. Aunque fue una computadora que originalmente se había diseñado para los fanáticos, algunos visionarios se dieron cuenta de su gran potencial, y se esforzaron mucho para que otros lograran verlo también. Y nadie se hubiera podido imaginar los grandes avances que produciría ese diseño. Forrest Mims, que fundó la compañía MITS junto con Ed Roberts, nos cuenta que hubo un momento en que la empresa se veía en serias dificultades, y Ed se empeñaba en salvar...
2022-06-1435 min
Advent of ComputingWhat's With The Wedge, Part 2 This concludes my series on the distinctive shape of early home computers. In this episode we finally cover the Sol-20 itself, the first system on the market to be shaped like a wedge. More generally, we try to figure out if the Sol-20 was the progenitor of hundreds of machines that followed, or if the wedge was inevitable. For such a simple question, this has become a surprisingly complicated topic. Selected sources: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/10/102702231-05-01-acc.pdf - Lee Felsenstein, oral history at CHM http://www.leefelsenstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/I_Designed_the_Sol...
2021-08-2356 min
Community SignalLessons from Community Memory, the First Publicly Available Social Media SystemLee Felsenstein's work in tech and social organizing led to the creation of the Community Memory project, the first publicly available social media system and public computerized bulletin board system. Mr. Felsenstein was also a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club, and he helped develop the personal computer. So, what was the first publicly accessible computerized bulletin board like? Mr. Felsenstein was less concerned with metrics around volume and recalls more specifically the diversity of interactions that happened through Community Memory. "We found somebody who did some typewriter graphics on it, [using] the teletype to laboriously...
2021-05-0344 min
Artists and HackersCommunity Memory and the Computing CountercultureIn this episode we're digging deep into the past of a radical history of personal computers, community networks and the rise of people's technology. Our guest is engineer Lee Felsenstein, who relates a story of activism and engineering.
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2021-03-1830 min
Chaos Computer Club - Remote Chaos Experience (mp3)Access to Tools (in Graphic design) (rc3)Egal ob Pinsel, Holz- oder Bleilettern, Layoutprogramm oder Facefilter – Werkzeuge spielen nicht nur eine große Rolle für die visuelle Kultur, sie formen auch unser Denken und Handeln. Als Designer*innen (und Hacker/Haecksen) geben wir einen Überblick auf die Entwicklung unserer Tools und interessieren uns dabei vor allem für Machtverhältnisse und emanzipatorisches Potenzial. Anschließend zeigen wir visuelle Experimente dieser Auseinandersetzung: Was passiert, wenn wir auf die bekannten Tools verzichten? Was kann alles ein Tool sein? Führt das falsche Tool noch zu einem richtigen Ergebnis?
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
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2020-12-2835 min
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)The Best of The Year in Retro Gaming: 2020 - The Retro Hour EP254
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2020-12-111h 40The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)The Homebrew Computer Club & Osborne 1: Lee Felsenstein - The Retro Hour EP249Lee Felsenstein website: http://www.leefelsenstein.com/
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2020-11-061h 25
Changelog InterviewsAltair 8800 and the dawn of a revolutionWe partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 3 from season 4 — called “Personal Computers: The Altair 8800 and the Dawn of a Revolution.” This is the story of personal computers and the revolution that took place in the PC era.
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2020-03-1133 minThe Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceAltair 8800 and the dawn of a revolution (Interview)We partnered with Red Hat to promote Season 4 of Command Line Heroes — a podcast about the people who transform technology from the command line up. Season 4 is all about hardware that changed the game. We’re featuring episode 3 from season 4 — called “Personal Computers: The Altair 8800 and the Dawn of a Revolution.” This is the story of personal computers and the revolution that took place in the PC era.
Learn more and subscribe at redhat.com/commandlineheroes.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear...
2020-03-1133 min
Floppy Days Vintage Computing PodcastFloppy Days 91 - The Osborne 1 with Lee FelsensteinThe Osborne 1 with Lee Felsenstein Welcome to episode 91 of the Floppy Days Podcast for May, 2019. In the timeline for personal computer introductions, we are now in the year 1981. For this episode we are going to be talking about the Osborne 1. The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation (OCC). It was powered by the Z80 CPU at a blazing 4MHz, weighed 24.5 lb, cost US$1,795, and ran the CP/M operating system. It was powered from a wall socket, as it had no on-board battery, but...
2019-05-301h 49Floppy Days Vintage Computing PodcastFloppy Days 90 - Lee Felsenstein InterviewEpisode 90 - Interview with Lee Felsenstein (Osborne 1) Welcome to episode 90 of the Floppy Days Podcast for April, 2019. In the timeline for personal computer introductions, we are now in the year 1981. For this episode, and actually the next couple as well, we are going to be talking about the Osborne 1. The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation. It was powered by the Z80 CPU, weighed 24.5 lb, cost US$1,795, and ran the CP/M operating system. It was powered from a wall socket, as it had...
2019-04-261h 21
Remotely InterestedRI Podcast 17 Part 1: Lee Felsenstein - Community Development, Social Media & Personal ComputingPart one of this RI Podcast interview with Lee Felsenstein includes the years leading up to the development of personal computers; the Homebrew Computer Club; community learning and the origins of social media.
Lee Felsenstein was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 2016. He was moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club - the hobbyist group famous for helping bring about companies like Apple. Other credits include the Osborne 1 portable computer and being an integral part of making the personal computer what it is today.
RIP website: www.remotely-interested.com
RIP facebook: www.facebook.com/remotely.interested/
RIP twitter...
2017-05-2451 min
TWiT Throwback (Video)Triangulation 232: Lee Felsenstein
Lee is an electronic engineer, a designer of new products, a researcher into aspects of how people can make use of such products, an explorer of new ways to build and apply designs, a writer, lecturer and teacher.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guest: Lee Felsenstein
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2016-01-041h 47
Chaos Computer Club - archive feed (high quality)Opening the Door to Cyberspace (vcfb15)Lee Felsenstein is an American computer engineer who played a central role in the development of the personal computer. He was one of the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club and the designer of the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer. Before the Osborne, Felsenstein designed the Intel 8080 based "SOL" computer from Processor Technology, the PennyWhistle modem, and other early "S-100 bus" era designs. His shared-memory alphanumeric video display design, the Processor Technology VDM-1 video display module board, was widely copied and became the basis for the standard display architecture of personal computers. Many of his designs were leaders...
2015-10-031h 02
Press Play On This Breakthrough Full Audiobook — Perfect This Weekend.The Secret History Of Social Networking by Rory Cellan-JonesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395852to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Secret History Of Social Networking
Author: Rory Cellan-Jones
Narrator: Rory Cellan-Jones
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Release date: September 1, 2012
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
Rory Cellan-Jones traces the roots of social networking from the counterculture of the 197s through early bulletin board systems such as California's The WELL and the first networks on the World Wide Web, finding out how a geeky hobby became a mass phenomenon. He discovers how Facebook became the world's biggest social network, looks at the sites of the future and asks where the...
2012-09-011h 23Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in History, WorldThe Secret History Of Social Networking by Rory Cellan-JonesPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395852to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Secret History Of Social Networking
Author: Rory Cellan-Jones
Narrator: Rory Cellan-Jones
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Release date: September 1, 2012
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
Rory Cellan-Jones traces the roots of social networking from the counterculture of the 197s through early bulletin board systems such as California's The WELL and the first networks on the World Wide Web, finding out how a geeky hobby became a mass phenomenon. He discovers how Facebook became the world's biggest social network, looks at the sites of the future and asks where the...
2012-09-011h 23
OutridersComputers old and new and tech education.This week Jamillah chats with Lee Felsenstein about his computers past and future and finds out about tech education in Liverpool.
2012-05-1524 min
DigiBarn RadioDigiBarn Radio: Lee Felsenstein on the Osborne 1 Schematics [November 12, 2006]This is an audio recording of Bruce Damer getting a talking tour of the Osborne 1 schematics by Lee Felsentein, Santa Cruz California on Nov 12, 2006. There is an image slide show associated with this MPEG-4 audio file.
2006-12-2234 minDigiBarn RadioDigiBarn Radio: Processor Technology and the Sol-20 @ 30 [November 5, 2006]This is an audio recording of a 30th anniversary event celebratiing Processor Technology and the Sol-20 computer held at the Vintage Computer Festival 9.0 in Mountain View, California on Nov 5, 2006. The panel was hosted by Sol designer Lee Felsenstein, and featuring Brett Bullington, Drew Rogge, Aram Attarian II, Diane Ascher and Gordon French calling in from Oregon.
2006-11-201h 41DigiBarn RadioDigiBarn Radio: Homebrew@30-the 30th birthday event for the Homebrew Computer Club [November 5, 2005]This is an audio recording of the Homebrew@30 event held at the Vintage Computer Festival 8.0 held in Mountain View, California on Nov 5, 2005. The panel wa hosted by Digibarn Curator Bruce Damer, and featuring original Homebrew Computer Club members Lee Felsenstein, Michael Holley, Steve Wozniak, Bob Lash, Len Shustek and Allen Baum.
2006-10-011h 47