Episodes

  • The Amp Hour #685 - Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab

    The Amp Hour #685 - Data Provenance in the Home, Server, and Fab
    Dec 23 2024
    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The Amp Hour #684 - Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture

    The Amp Hour #684 - Lee Felsenstein: The Computer Revolution & Counterculture
    Dec 10 2024
    A full 3 hour discussion with the legendary Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1, SOL computer, VDM-1, Pennywhistle modem, and the inventor of social media. Covering everything from the Berkeley free speech movement, the counterculture movement, his career, through to Obsorne and how he invented social media with Community Memory. His book: https://www.amazon.com/Me-My-Big-Idea... https://felsensigns.com/ 00:00 - Full 3 hour talk with Lee Felsenstein 08:24 - University of California at Berkeley, and the Free Speech Movement. 29:04 - First Junior Engineer job at Ampex 36:20 - The first hackathons with Richard Greenblatt 37:33 - Hackers, Heros of the computer revolution 1:03:36 - Techical career at Ampex 1:12:52 - Atari Computers and Steve Jobs, Nolan Bushnall, and Allan Alcorn 1:15:00 - He tried to pitch social media to Steve Jobs 1:22:15 - Designing the Pennywhistle 103 modem + 1:25:36 - Marty Spergel selling kits 1:31:53 - Steve Wozniak and how the Apple 1 is NOT a personal computer 1:43:42 - Osborne Computers 1:53:22 - Osborne 1 physical design 1:57:57 - Osborne 1 development timeline 2:01:19 - The Osborne Effect wasn't what killed the company
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    2 hrs and 58 mins
  • The Amp Hour #683 - Troubleshooting is the skill

    The Amp Hour #683 - Troubleshooting is the skill
    Nov 20 2024
    1 hr and 3 mins
  • The Amp Hour #682 - Your Mind Is The Tool

    The Amp Hour #682 - Your Mind Is The Tool
    Nov 6 2024
    1 hr and 8 mins
  • The Amp Hour #681 - Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel

    The Amp Hour #681 - Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel
    Oct 30 2024
    1 hr and 6 mins
  • The Amp Hour #680 - Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks

    The Amp Hour #680 - Catching Rockets with Musk Sticks
    Oct 21 2024
    1 hr and 9 mins
  • The Amp Hour #679 - Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon

    The Amp Hour #679 - Satellite Design Engineering with Dan Esparon
    Oct 11 2024

    Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about designing and launching satellites!
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The Amp Hour #678 - All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya

    The Amp Hour #678 - All About Antennas with Katerina Galitskaya
    Oct 1 2024
    1 hr and 5 mins