Show notes
A 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 Felsenstein08:24 – University of California at Berkeley, and the Free Speech Movement.29:04 – First Junior Engineer job at Ampex36:20 – The first hackathons with Richard Greenblatt37:33 – Hackers, Heros of the computer revolution1:03:36 – Techical career at Ampex1:12:52 – Atari Computers and Steve Jobs, Nolan Bushnall, and Allan Alcorn1:15:00 – He tried to pitch social media to Steve Jobs1:22:15 – Designing the Pennywhistle 103 modem +1:25:36 – Marty Spergel selling kits1:31:53 – Steve Wozniak and how the Apple 1 is NOT a personal computer1:43:42 – Osborne Computers1:53:22 – Osborne 1 physical design1:57:57 – Osborne 1 development timeline2:01:19 – The Osborne Effect wasn’t what killed the company