The Amp Hour
An off-the-cuff radio show and podcast for electronics enthusiasts and professionals. Note: this is the "show only" version of the feed. To see the show notes, check out the main podcast feed: https://theamphour.com/feed/
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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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Dan Esparon from Inovor Technologies in South Australia joins Dave to discuss all about designing and launching satellites!

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Kathy Joseph from Kathy Loves Physics joins Dave on The Amp Hour to discuss history and physics and we end up discussing the intricate history of the development of the Cathode Ray Tube.

Read Kathy's Book The Lightning Tamers: https://tinyurl.com/TheLightningTamers

https://www.youtube.com/@UCYrX5FiWjiPd0JytMh6NX1Q

Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1577-history-of-cathode-ray-tubes-with-kathy-joseph/

00:00 - Kathy Loves Physics
02:45 - Philo Farnsworth, the farmboy who invented television
10:00 - Professor Julius Plucker & Heinrich Ruhmkorff
11:13 - Heinrich Geissler and Geissler tubes
14:28 - Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
16:15 - William Crookes and the Crookes Radiometer
20:00 - Heinrich Hertz
25:00 - Scintillating Scotoma
27:00 - Philipp Lenard
31:25 - Wilhelm Rontgen
38:45 - Mihajlo Pupin
44:00 - Francis Perrin
49:10 - Henri Becquerel
55:39 - Curie Piezoelectric Quartz Balance Electrometer
1:07:46 - Philco & Bob Pease
1:08:44 - Vladimir Zworykin
1:15:12 - Free Energy & Debunking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Pl%C3%BCcker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Daniel_Ruhmkorff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Gei%C3%9Fler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wilhelm_Hittorf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crookes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Lenard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Perrin_(physicist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Becquerel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_K._Zworykin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihajlo_Pupin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philco

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