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Born in Philadelphia
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Enrolled in UC Berkeley
Lee enrolled in UC Berkeley and also participated in a work study program within the Engineering department. -
Arrested at Berkeley
As a teenager, Lee was part of the Free Speech Movement and would be arrested in the Sproul Hall Sit-in -
Dropout
Lee dropouts of UC Berkeley -
Graduated from Berkeley
Graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science -
Community Memory Project
Lee helped start a project which used a SDS-940 mainframe computer to make time-shared public bulletin board system around the city of Berkeley. -
Pennywhistle
Lee designed and built one of the earliest modems that would be available to computer hobbyist. -
Homebrew Computer Club
Lee was one of the first members of the group, and would later become the moderator of the club as the membership grew. -
Popular Electronics
Lee and Marty "Junk Man" sent schematics of a new version of the Pennywhistle to Les Solomon at Popular Electronics. It was priced at 109 dollars. -
Osborne Computer Corporation
Lee and Adam Osborne founded a computer company. Lee would design the company's first product which was a portable computer. -
The Osborne
The Osborne was the portable computer Lee designed. It cost $1795 and sold around 125,000 units by 1982. What was most impressive was the software that was bundled with the computer had around the same value of the computer. -
Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier
Lee was named a "Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier" by the Electronic Frontier Foundation -
Free Speech Movement Archives
Lee founded these archives which has all the records of the Free Speech movement that he was apart of in the 1960s. -
Jhai Foundation
He developped an open source communications network that ran solely on pedal-based generation for small villages in 3rd world countries. -
EE Times
Lee was awarded with the award for Creative Excellence by EE Times Magazine. -
Computer History Museum
In 2016, Lee was made a fellow by the Computer History Museum.
