Lee

Lee Felsenstein

By SamJ1969

  • Date of Birth

    Date of Birth
    Lee Felsenstein is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Fellow).
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  • College

    College
    Lee enrolled at the University of California, Berkely, majoring in electrical engineering.
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  • Drops out of College

    Lee drops out of college at the end of 1967.
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  • Junior Engineer at the Ampex Corportaion

    Junior Engineer at the Ampex Corportaion
    After dropping out Lee worked with Ampex Corporation from 1968 to 1971
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  • Graduated College

    Graduated College
    Went back to College in 1972 to finish his degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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  • Pennywhistle Modem

    Pennywhistle Modem
    A modem designed by Lee in 1973 and then later commercialized and offered to the public in 1976.
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  • Homebrew Computer Club

    Homebrew Computer Club
    One of the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club which was a response to the Altair 8800 computer kit.
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  • Sol-20

    Sol-20
    When Lee was a member of the Homebrew Computer club designed the Intel 8080 based Sol-20 computer from Processor Technology.
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  • Community Memory Project

    Community Memory Project
    A project from Resource One, Inc but then later incorporated by Felsenstein with Efrem Lipkin, Ken Colstad, Jude Milhon, and Mark Szpakowski. Which was on of the earliest attempts to bring networked computer terminals to the public.
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  • VDM-1

    VDM-1
    Lee shared his shared-memory alphanumeric video display design, the video display module board when then was widely copied and became the basis for the standard display architecture of personal computers
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  • Micro Expander

    Micro Expander
    After the Sol-20 went out of business, Lee found a new company called Micro-Expander, Inc which then he designed the Micro Expander Model 1
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  • Osborne Computer Corporation

    Osborne Computer Corporation
    Felsenstein was employed at the Osborne Computer Corporation and he also designed the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer.
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  • Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier

    Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier
    In 1994 Lee Felsenstein was given the title 'Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier" by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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  • Jhai Foundation

    Jhai Foundation
    Lee worked with the Jhai Foundation which was an open-source telecommunications and computer system for installation in remote villages in the developing world.
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  • Fellow of the Computer History Museum

    Fellow of the Computer History Museum
    Lee was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum for his influence on the technical and social environment of the early personal computing era.
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