[HN Gopher] Steve Roberts: Computing Across America
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Steve Roberts: Computing Across America
Author : duck
Score : 51 points
Date : 2023-04-11 17:55 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (bikepacking.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (bikepacking.com)
| PaulDavisThe1st wrote:
| I wonder what happened to Maggie ...
| walrus01 wrote:
| 1984 popular science magazine article:
| https://microship.com/online-on-the-road/
| fernly wrote:
| You can see BEHEMOTH at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
| View, CA. It's just past the Lisa and opposite the Palm Pilot
| display.
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| The pictures in the catalog entry were taken in a warehouse. The
| bike is displayed much more nicely than these show.
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| https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/L2003.20...
| zh3 wrote:
| As a bit of background, the HUD is a Reflection Technology
| 'Private Eye' display, which went on to become the display
| technology behind the Nintendo Virtual Boy. Very neat devices,
| powered by an 8-bit 68HC05 and very much a self-contained display
| (though I generally drive them with a Pi these days).
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| I'd love to see a link to where you can get the hardware.
| jgrahamc wrote:
| Back in the 1980s I was utterly inspired by Steve Roberts and his
| bicycle and machines. I so wanted to find a way to buy a Radio
| Shack Model 100 in the UK. Seeing the BEHEMOTH in the Computer
| History Museum was an incredibly moving moment for me.
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| Oh, and I kept the copy of Mondo 2000 where there was an article
| about him because the combination of him riding that crazy
| computer-laded bike and the whole Mondo 2000 aesthetic made me
| think something special was happening. The particular issue had
| this plus Richard Stallman, Brian Eno, Timothy Leary and William
| Burroughs. And Joichi Ito.
| aggressivefitch wrote:
| Yes i remember! Back in the 80s didn't he document his journey
| and had a best seller . I bought that book. Was called
| "Computing Across America." Started the whole digital nomad
| trend of trekking across long distances and blogging it etc
| etc. Hahaha I mean the guys bike had crazy inspector gadget
| type gadgets! Like a computer, a ham radio, a satellite link,
| and a fax machine of all things and then went 17k miles across
| the Us. totally rad for it's time lol.
| macintux wrote:
| Steve was a friend of my mother, who was president of the
| International Human Powered Vehicles Association. I met some
| interesting people over the years, although not Steve, but he
| always struck me as the craziest (in a good way) dreamer.
| zh3 wrote:
| Plenty of crazies at Battle Mountain [0]. Not been, but it's on
| the bucket list.
|
| [0] http://www.ihpva.org/whpsc/#:~:text=The%20World%20Human%20P
| o....
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Looks like this year it's September 10 to 16.
|
| https://travelnevada.com/event/world-human-powered-speed-
| cha...
| tabreu wrote:
| What happened when it rained?
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