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Birth and childhood
Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Lee's grandfather was an engineer who had improved the Diesel engine so that it had the ablity to fit in cars and small boats which had supured Lee's entrest with electrionics. A large majority of his childhood Lee spent down in is basment workshop where he and friends attemted to build electronic device. Also over his childhood Lee managed a radio and TV repair business and had been featured on local TV for his electronic talents. -
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University Of California Berkeley
Lee attended the college of Engineering at UC Berkeley as an electrical enginering major. He dropped out in 1967 and later came back. -
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Free Speech Movement
Throughht out his time at UC Berkeley and afterwords, Lee Felsenstein was an active part of the free speech movement with much of his work in the movement being related to a newsletter which gave people information for protest and other related things. -
Sprout Hall Sit-in
Lee was a participant in the Free Speech Movement and because of his active nature in the movement was one of 768 arrestees in the climactic "Sproul Hall Sit-In" of December 2–3, 1964. -
Graduation from UC Berkerly
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Community Memory
Resource One and Community MemoryThis was the first public computerized memory bulletin board system. Created by Efrem Lipkin, Mark Szpakowski, and Lee Felsenstein, thefirst terminal was a Teletype Model 33 ASR connected to the SDS 940 computer by telephone, using a 10 character per second acoustic coupled modem. It was located at the top of the stairs leading to Leopold's Records in Berkeley, right next to a busy conventional bulletin board. Mark called the system the frst ever "net". -
People's Computer Company
The People's computer company's goal was to see how computers work and hopefully encourage people to engage with the process and Lee Felsenstein after his work with Community Memory helped them design a terminal so they couldd achive that goal. -
Homebrew Computer club
Lee join the Homebrew computer club and then later after Moore and French leave, He takes over as meeting head for the club and with him at the lead the club runs much smother than ever before. -
Pennywhistle Modem
While working on Community Memory, Lee Felsenstein designed the early acoustic coupler modem the Pennywhistle Modem. The Design came from the annyoonece that Lee had with Omnitech Modem and he wanted too improve it. While he devloped this system in 1973, it was commercialized and offered for sale in 1976. -
The Sol-20 Computer
the Sol-20 was the brain child of Felsenstein and Bob Marsh , sadly for Felsenstein, the computer was not the big hit as he thought it would be. Lee and Marsh sold about 10,000 uits between 1977 and 1979 -
The Osborne 1
The Osborne 1 was developed by Adam Osborne and designed by Lee Felsenstein. It was first announced in early 1981. Osborne, an author of computer books, decided he wanted to break the price of computers by creating a cheap portable computer or the general market. The Osborne 1 was the pioneer of the portable microcomputing market -
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World's first wearable computer
Felsenstein in 1989 to design a wearble computer for Reddy Information Systems. He the finished product was unveiled at the 1991 CD-ROM Conference and Exposition. -
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Consluting for other companys (Pemstar Pacific and Inteval Reseach)
After his work on the Osborne 1 Lee ,in 1992, joined Interval Research Corporation, where he worked until 2000 before joining Pemstar Pacific Consultants, where he worked until 2005. Throughout, he acted as an occasional free-lance consulting designer or worked at his own design firm. -
Pedal Powered Internet
In 2003, while working with the Jhai Foundation of San Francisco, Lee Felsenstein designed an open-source telecommunications and computer system for installation in remote villages in the developing world. This system was dubbed "the Pedal-Powered Internet" by The New York Times Magazine due to its reliance on pedal power generation. Installation of the first system in Laos was unsuccessful, but the design has been tested on an Indian reservation in the US and continues in development in India. -
HackerDojo
Hacker Dojo is a community center and hackerspace in Mountain View, California. Predominantly an open working space for software projects, the Dojo hosts a range of events from technology classes to biology, computer hardware, and manufacturing and is open to all types of hackers and Lee Felsenstein is one of its founding members or as people call him the "Founding Sensei".