[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.
       | 
       | 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?
        
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