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Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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in Engineering
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He was one of the 768 arrested during the Sproul Hall Sit-In at UC Berkeley
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Worked as a Junior Engineer at the Ampex Corporation
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He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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with the help of Mark Szpakowski, Efrem Lipkin, and others.
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This was an early computer hobbyist group that took place in Silicon Valley. This lasted from March 5, 1975 to December 1986. Due to the open exchange of creative ideas that were shared during meetings, it became of aid to the launch of personal computers. It has been called the "crucible for an entire industry."
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Due to prices of the modems used on the Community Memory project being so expensive, Felsenstein had designed a much less expensive version, which then lead to the design of the Pennywhistle modem. It was then featured on the cover of Popular Electronics and became a favorite of people who were early personal computers hobbyists.
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This computer was one of the first microcomputers to be sold with a case and a keyboard. Between 1977 and 1979, more than 10,000 units for the SOL-20 were sold.
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Felsenstein and Adam Osborne founded Osborne Computer Corporation, and designed the company's first product, which was a portable computer.
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This name was given to Felsenstein by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Felsenstein founded the Free Speech Movement Archives as an online place that holds historical information relating to that specific event, its precursor and successors.
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During his employment with the Jhai Foundation of San Francisco, he had designed an open-source telecommunications and a computer system that could be installed in the developing world within remote villages.
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EE Times magazine awarded him the Editor's Choice Award for Creative Excellence.
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Felsenstein was featured on a Fox News segment discussing the non-profit facility, due to him being the Founding teacher of the HackerDojo in Mountain View, California.
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He was made a Fellow in the Computer History Museum, because of his significant impact of the early personal computer era on the environment technically and socially.