Felsenstein on Resource One and Community Memory

Disposition: stated (a participant's memoir, excerpted from Me and My Big Ideas; three excerpts read in full 2026-10-23). Created in trail-2026-10-23.

What: Lee Felsenstein's first-hand account of installing a donated surplus SDS-940 at Project One (San Francisco, 1971-72), opening the Community Memory public terminal in Berkeley (1973), and closing the system (1975, 1988/89, 1992). Why: the earliest documented case found of community computing run on surplus corporate hardware, with an explicit Illichian design rule. Bears on hosting-cost-claim and philosophy-of-technology; concept page community-memory.

• https://foundsf.org/Installing_a_Mainframe_at_Project_One (read in full 2026-10-23)
• https://www.foundsf.org/Community_Memory:_The_Beginning (read in full 2026-10-23)
• https://www.foundsf.org/Reflections_on_the_End_of_Community_Memory (read in full 2026-10-23)
• Corroboration (search text 2026-10-23): Computer History Museum, "Overviews and promotional material: 1982-1991", https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/02/102734414-05-01-acc.pdf ; CSMonitor 29 Aug 1984, https://www.csmonitor.com/1984/0829/082938.html ; FoundSF "Community Memory Evolves", https://www.foundsf.org/Community_Memory_Evolves

Backlinks: community-memory, trail-2026-10-23