The 1992 decision to replace BEHEMOTH with a computerized solar/sail multihull launched me into a massive development project which has consumed more than 7 years of my life… and changed form so completely since the early days that some of these initial postings alternate between being amusing and embarrassing. In the interest of documenting the…

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by Steven K. Roberts San Diego, California June 7, 1993 The Boatlab Materializes! Well, I have good news! It has been one year since I posted “LEVIATHAN: Call for Discussion” to the Technomads alias and started tossing around ideas for this new project. A few months later, I began the quest for a host lab, convinced…

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At the cusp between the BEHEMOTH bicycle era and the beginning of the Microship project, this very well-written article appeared in Silicon Valley. I was just winding down a long mothership trek around the US, hauling the bike to speaking gigs and schmoozing for lab space to build the Microship, and the author did an excellent…

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1993 was a pivotal year… traveling the US in a mobile lab, doing trade shows and speaking gigs while questing urgently for lab space. At every stop, I schmoozed with local industry and academia, looking for a facility where I could park and build the Microship. This event, the Telecommunications Association conference, was no different……

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This event was covered in the Oregonian the next day; see that post for more about the Microship lab quest that was just nearing an end.  Bicycle in DATASPACE with STEVE ROBERTS A high-tech nomadic bicyclist takes to the open road and redefines the concept of freedom at the Oregon Convention Center TCA Partners in…

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Anticipating the Smartphone… I did this as an email interview at the beginning of April 1993, and it focuses on wireless data issues related to the BEHEMOTH bicycle, the upcoming Microship project, and the future of nomadic connectivity. But the highlight is my answer to the question bold-faced below… in which I described (with some…

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This is one of my favorite videos from the BEHEMOTH era, and it aired on the Discovery Channel on April 27, 1993. The presenter is Richard Hart, and filming was done near San Luis Obispo while I was in a layover between speaking tours… on a quest for a place to set up a Microship…

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This is a wonderful place, and the event of my speaking there ended up being pivotal. I was schmoozing around the country for Microship lab space and had a good friendship developing at Scripps… but there was no open facility for me to spend a couple of years doing a messy boat project on-site. I…

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I don’t know the exact date of this, nor even the publication… but it is delightful. The author is Jack Rochester, a prolific Boston writer and cyclist, and the piece is the result of his visit with me during my appearance at the Mobile Computing Expo. His writing is playful, and really catches the spirit…

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