Lee Felsenstein: "Makers, Hackers and the Personal computer Revolution"

I just received a note from Lee Felsenstein that he will be speaking today as detailed below. (note: Pacific time). For those not familar, Lee was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and designer of the Osborne I and many other ground-breaking products.

It should be an interesting talk.

Date: 12 Feb 2013 03:16:43 -0800 
From: Lee Felsenstein <lee@fonlyinstitute.com> 
Subject: EE380 talk Wednesday 4:15PM - Makers, Hackers and the Personal computer Revolution  

I will be giving the EE380 colloquium lecture Wednesday (2/13) at 4:15 PM, on the parallels and divergences between the maker movement and the early personal computer industry (when it, too was still a "movement", propelled by passion and not riches).  With about 36 hours to put the slides and the outline together it will be interesting to see the results. They will be streamed live and available for replay later - see http://EE380.Stanford.edu .  For more shameless self-promotion I offer my new website www.leefelsenstein.com . I really must put up a notice of the 380 event there...

Lee was both a frequent speaker and often moderator of the Homebrew computer at it's SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator) meeting place. Where I often heard him speak.

He was a brilliant guy and much of the Processor Technology SOL and a lot of other video based computer hardware first came from his genius.

The first available S100 video board was Lee's and I still have it one of his earliest ones.

Processor Tech was also about 5 miles down the road from where I lived and worked (Livermore) and I had during this time several SOLs and had occasional contact with him relating to those.

Even then he was a strong advocate of the kind of openness that we now find in "Open Source", Maker, Arduino and DIY world before the suits and bean counters took over.

He was one of the truly important brilliant developers during the formative years of the personal computer revolution and I look forward to hearing from him now, it has been too long.

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Peter Meister February 13, 2013 at 5:17pm

I have had the good fortune to meet him and other luminaries in my professional life and he is truly a visionary. Truly! Great article Mark - thanks for posting! Wish I could have made the live stream!
Gary McCray February 13, 2013 at 12:47pm

Lee was both a frequent speaker and often moderator of the Homebrew computer at it's SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator) meeting place. Where I often heard him speak.

He was a brilliant guy and much of the Processor Technology SOL and a lot of other video based computer hardware first came from his genius.

The first available S100 video board was Lee's and I still have it one of his earliest ones.

Processor Tech was also about 5 miles down the road from where I lived and worked (Livermore) and I had during this time several SOLs and had occasional contact with him relating to those.

Even then he was a strong advocate of the kind of openness that we now find in "Open Source", Maker, Arduino and DIY world before the suits and bean counters took over.

He was one of the truly important brilliant developers during the formative years of the personal computer revolution and I look forward to hearing from him now, it has been too long.

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