Remotely Interested

Part one of this RI Podcast interview with Lee Felsenstein includes the years leading up to the development of personal computers; the Homebrew Computer Club; community learning and the origins of social media.

Lee Felsenstein was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 2016. He was moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club - the hobbyist group famous for helping bring about companies like Apple. Other credits include the Osborne 1 portable computer and being an integral part of making the personal computer what it is today.

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Lee Felsenstein:

http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/lee-felsenstein/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44hCMo1qSQs&t=26s

Free Speech Movement Archive:

http://www.fsm-a.org/

On Learning and Social Change:

http://mrossman.org/olsc/olscindex.html

Community Learning:

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

Audio Clips

The Free Speech Movement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlYk-WoBEEg

John F. Kennedy - June 11th, 1963

Civil Rights Address in which the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was proposed. The address was also given at a time when the Cold War was at its peak and fear of soviet propaganda linked to racial violence was being seriously considered by the United States of America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVdZBtlSirI

Charlie Junkerman - April 17, 2014, Stanford University

Discussing the Freedom Summer of 1964 in historical context at a 50th anniversary event held on the Stanford campus in California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7zJU4TqSvs

Edward Binns - Narrator of This is Marshall Mcluhan: The Medium is the Message Documentary - March 19 1967

In the context of our journey with Lee, the pre existing conditions or “medium” where information flow is percolating in politically fused post war societies are intermingling with the information and communication technologies that were evolving around him at great pace.

This includes micro electronics in general, the micro chip and, of course, personal computing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1axnba_Ueg

Doug Engelbart - The Mother of All Demos - December 9th, 1968

Where for the first time, the fundamental elements of what we now perceive as personal computing was demonstrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

Mark Stephens AKA Robert X. Cringley, April 14th 1996

From the PBS Oregon / Channel 4 documentary series Triumph of the Nerds, in which the chips inside the first personal computers used by the Homebrew Computer Club are put into context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX5g0kidk3Y&t=1469s

Steve Wozniak, November 28th 2016

Talking with the Presidents Institute about the development of the Apple 1 and sharing his system architecture with the Homebrew Computer Club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7sktJOoyvs

Glenn Keller became a chip designer under the guidance of Jay Miner – father of the Amiga computer and a chip developer for the Atari 2600 / 8-bit range of computers. Keller’s life in computing includes the Paula sound chip for the Amiga computer; contract work with Commodore for the AAA chipset, as well as helping RJ Mical and Dave Needle bring the Handy (Atari Lynx) and 3DO gaming machines to life. He has been designing imaging sensors at Foveon since 1998.

RIP 16 starts out with Glenn’s background as an MIT graduate in Ocean Engineering and goes straight through his storied career. Topics of discussion include chip and sensor design; computer and video game console design; scientist and engineer Carver Mead; as well as fellow Amiga Corp. alumni like Carl Sassenrath and Dale Luck.

Paula audio chip:

http://www.polynominal.com/Commodore-Amiga/commodore-amiga-500-paula.htm

Foveon camera:

http://www.foveon.com/article.php?a=67

History of Amiga video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg8uKYLa1Aw

Chipsets:

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

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

Carver Mead:

http://www.cns.caltech.edu/people/faculty/mead.html

Introduction to VLSI Systems:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/VLSIText/PP-V2/V2.pdf

Handy / Atari Lynx:

http://www.filfre.net/2016/12/a-time-of-endings-part-2-epyx/

3DO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_3DO_Company

RIP 15 VIVA AMIGA Exclusive: Zach Weddington – Community Sourced Documentary Making

Zach Weddington has a well-established background as a professional video maker. VIVA Amiga is his first documentary film, and it tells the story of the people behind the Amiga computer.

RIP 15 covers a range of topics – from crowdfunding a film to accidentally leveraging the power of a user community. This podcast is a must for anyone interested in people and how a technology driven journey can change someone’s life.

Viva Amiga Film: https://amigafilm.com/

Viva Amiga Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vivaamiga/?fref=ts

Rock Steady Media: http://rocksteadymedia.com/

Retrospective Computing and Consumer-Led Development:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A7478484%29&refinements=4226442253&pageNumber=1&resultAction=REFINE

Arstechnica coverage:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multiverse/2017/01/people-still-use-the-amiga-today-and-new-viva-amiga-documentary-shows-why/

BoingBoing:

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/09/viva-amiga-watch-a-documentar.html

Chris "C.J." Romer has been studying the paranormal since the 1980s. He has worked on 13 different televised series - from Ghost Hunters to Most Haunted.

This episode discusses the paranormal, technologies used to try and document the unusual, as well as the Sinclair ZX 81 fuelled ‘Spontaneous Psychophysical Incident Data Electronic Recorder’ (SPIDER). Thomas Edison's attempts to communicate with “the other side” are also featured.

Christian Jensen Romer: https://jerome23.wordpress.com/

https://jerome23.wordpress.com/tag/spr-report-on-the-census-of-hallucinations/

K II EMF Meter:

https://www.amazon.com/K-II-EMF-Meter-Ghost-Hunting/dp/B001PFPTCS

Spirit Box:

https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Ghost-Hunting-Equipment-Radio/dp/B00NABGFSM

Edison’s Psycho Phone:

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/psychophone/

Phone Calls from the Dead: https://www.amazon.com/Phone-Calls-Dead-investigation-incredible/dp/0136643345

The Spiricom:

http://www.angelsghosts.com/spiricom

Cock Lane Ghost:

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

Society for Psychical Research:

http://www.spr.ac.uk/

The Magic Circle:

http://themagiccircle.co.uk/

Mystery of Wem ghost solved by an 88-year-old postcard and an eagled-eyed pensioner:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1279329/Wem-ghost-picture-mystery-resolved-eagled-eyed-pensioner.html

ASSAP:

http://www.assap.ac.uk/

Pareidolia:

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

Tony Cornell and the SPIDERs from Cambridge:

http://tomruffles.blogspot.com/2016/10/tony-cornell-and-spiders-from-cambridge.html

http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/eug/72/a-spoo.html

http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/yc/cats/yc305.html

Cambridge Paranormal Research Society:

http://www.cprs.co.uk/aboutus.html

Harry Price:

http://www.harrypricewebsite.co.uk/

Infrasound:

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

Paracoustics:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1910121320/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1910121320

Telepathy:

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

This episode discusses the perceived divide between universities and businesses. It discusses how startups come out of disciplines like anthropology; the long term preservation and concerns associated with digital information, as well as the ways in which people are at the heart of this.

Michael Ashley received his doctorate and PhD from University of California Berkeley. He also worked for UC Berkeley before forming Codifi.

Codifi Inc: https://codifi.org/

Paperless App for AEC:

https://www.plangrid.com/

Escaping the Digital Dark Age: http://www.rense.com/general38/escap.htm

Scansite3D:

http://scansite.com/

The Wayne's World Effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P5axkvoH0U

Howard Rheingold, Network Literacy Mini-Course: http://rheingold.com/2013/network-literacy-mini-course/

http://er.educause.edu/articles/2010/10/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/net-smart

Mukurtu:

http://www.mukurtuarchive.org/

Kim Justice is a storyteller, video documentary maker and guest journalist for Retro Gamer Magazine. Her YouTube channel had almost 20,000 subscribers when RIP 12 was recorded.

Her videos have firm roots in retrospective computing and gaming. They also serves as good examples of how following your interests can lead to great content with long term value. This episode of the Remotely Interested Podcast will be of interest to anyone thinking about YouTube or always on media as a communication tool. It will also be of interest to anyone looking to work with crowdfunding sites like Patreon.

Kim Justice: https://www.youtube.com/user/elmyrdehory/videos

https://www.patreon.com/kimblejustice

Consolevania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdn39wPHqQQ

Angry Video Game Nerd: http://remotely-interested.com/the-angry-video-game-nerd/

Retrospective Computing and Consumer-Led Development: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A7478484%29&refinements=4226442253&pageNumber=1&resultAction=REFINE

Creating Substance from a Cloud: Low-Cost Product Generation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7042697

Retro Gamer magazine: http://www.retrogamer.net/

Nicholas Briggs is an Executive Producer at Big Finish Productions. He is also the voice of the Daleks on Doctor Who.

We talked about numerous aspects of Nicholas’s career when he was at Time Game in Atlanta, May 2016.

The conversation included his work at Big Finish Productions; how Briggs followed his passions in order to become the voice of the Daleks, as well as all things Doctor Who.

Big Finish Productions has provided audio content based around classic Sci Fi shows like Doctor Who since 1996.

Nicholas Briggs:

http://www.nicholasbriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Nick_Briggs_Podcast_001.mp3

Big Finish Productions:

https://www.bigfinish.com/

The Daleks:

http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/dalek/

http://webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/ring-modulator/

Jason Haigh Ellery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49R7CVAvj80

TimeGate / WHOlanta:

https://timegatecon.org/about/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1738112056461109/

The Night of the Doctor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3jrS-uhuo

Dracula - Starring Mark Gatiss:

https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/dracula-starring-mark-gatiss-teaser-trailer

Gregory C Walsh was a tenured professor at the University of Maryland before working at a startup called Cyra Technologies.

Greg currently helps to develop software and hardware dedicated to working with 3D images known as point clouds. His current title is Director of R & D for TLS software at Leica Geosystems. Prior to this, he was the system architect for Leica 3D laser scanners - from the HDS 3000 - ScanStation C 10. He also contributed to the ScanScation P40.

Cyra Technologies developed commercial 3D laser scanning hardware and software from 1993 - 2001, at which time they were acquired by Leica Geosystems. The latter was acquired by Hexagon AB in 2005.

3D laser scanning explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzkyrbh8Bvo

Making HDS Work For You:

https://soundcloud.com/hxgnradio/making-hds-work-for-you

Leica Geosystems 3D laser scanning hardware and software:

http://hds.leica-geosystems.com/en/index.htm

Bil Herd is a computer engineer. His CV includes being the principal engineer on the Commodore Plus/4, C16/116, C264, and C364. He also designed the Commodore 128. Herd worked for Hackaday, and had also narrated the “8bit Generation” documentary, by the time of RIP 9.

Herd’s interview included memories of Jack Tramiel and Dave Needle; Sinclair’s impact on Commodore; the company's position as a chip manufacturer; the Tramiel family today; as well as his viewpoints on the Maker movement. This interview is a great insight into hardware design.

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RIP iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/remotely-interested.com/id1071989070?mt=2

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RIP twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatInterested

Bil Herd:

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

8bit Generation:

http://www.8bitgeneration.com/

Commodore 128:

http://c128.com/

Hackaday:

https://hackaday.com/author/williamherd/

https://hackaday.io/bilherd

Herdware: http://www.herdware.com/

Jerry Manock is considered the father of the Apple Industrial Design Group - best known in recent times because of Sir Jony Ive. Manock was the key industrial designer on the Apple II, Apple III and the original Apple Macintosh. He was with Apple from 1977-1984.

Manock talks about Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and his career in industrial design. Insights into the formative years of the personal computing market are also a key take away from RIP 8.

RIP website: remotely-interested.com

RIP facebook: https://www.facebook.com/remotely.interested/

RIP twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatInterested

Jerry Manock:

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

Apple Design Group:

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

Meet Jerry Manock, Apple’s Very First Designer:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669050/meet-jerry-manock-apples-very-first-designer

Burlington Mac maker Jerry Manock remembers his old boss:

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/iwitness/Content?oid=2183491

Steve Jobs:

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/iwitness/Content?oid=2183491

Making the iBio for Apple’s Genius:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/books/steve-jobs-by-walter-isaacson-review.html?_r=0

Collaborative teaching of integrated product development: a case study:

http://106.120.208.160:8080/BOOKS%5C025%5C21%5CHXYWPJH67519.pdf

Grassometer:

http://www.grassometer.com/