[HN Gopher] Steve Roberts: Computing Across America ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | The pictures in the catalog entry were taken in a warehouse. The | bike is displayed much more nicely than these show. | | 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. | | 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? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-12 23:01 UTC)