Boston: Hynes Convention Center March 3-4, 1993 (See related newspaper coverage) Nomadic Research Labs Steven Roberts the “High-Tech Nomad” will display the computerized bicycle he calls BEHEMOTH . . . Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine (Only Too Heavy) … at Mobile Computing EXPO. Steven Roberts and BEHEMOTH have pedaled over 16,000 miles across America while writing…

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Satellite & Cellular Internet on a Bicycle One of the most fun parts of this whole adventure was what came after the years of development and pedaling… being invited to conferences and trade shows to mingle with the folks who built the industry. This one was stellar, and brought together the team who invented my…

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What a playground… I had the real pleasure of spending an afternoon at Thinking Machines, getting graphics demos from Karl Sims, and meeting a dizzying array of luminaries. After BBN the day before, with MIT Media Lab the day after, I was getting seriously tempted to land in Boston and start the Microship project there.…

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This is a recurring theme of my technomadics… playing with machines that opened amazing doors. It was almost dizzying, during three successive days in 1992, to speak at BBN, Thinking Machines, and MIT Media Lab. BBN (originally Bolt, Beranek and Newman and now part of Raytheon) was best known in the olden days for developing…

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The photo at the top of this page shows Vint Cerf, an iconic figure in Internet history, stopping by my booth to see BEHEMOTH. It was an honor to spend a few minutes chatting with him. The photo is by Ole Jacobsen, taken at Spring Interop in Washington DC. This was my booth on the Interop Spring…

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ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY and the Department of Computer Science University of Nevada present Steve Roberts and his Grand Touring Machine Thursday, April 16th, at 4 p.m., in SEM 101 Meet BEHEMOTH: Have you ever seen a $1.2 million, 105-speed recumbent bicycle with satellite data link, GPS navigation, ham radio station, cellular phone with fax…

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Hewlett-Packard was one of my favorite companies through all the bicycling years, and occasionally my speaking tour schedule would permit swinging by an H-P facility for an on-site presentation to employees. These were always fun, especially in Corvallis… where the exquisite H-P Portable was created. Posters of me with this machine atop Clouds Rest in…

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Because this event with BEHEMOTH generated such a flurry of media coverage, all about the same time, I am departing from our usual structure of one story per post and putting them all on right here. This is an excellent demonstration of what happens with a well-run event, and the archive opens with their wonderful…

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This was fun… after my brief pedaling adventure with the third and final version of the bike, I supported myself and began funding the upcoming Microship project with a sort of non-stop media/speaking tour. I didn’t really live anywhere in 1992 after moving out of the Bikelab at Sun, but just wandered the US in…

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I often described BEHEMOTH as a high-tech door-opener, a magical key that would let me into places that I would have never seen otherwise. This was one such case, offering a glimpse into the world of high-end video production. I showed up with the mobile-lab trailer, offloaded the bike, did a talk, and moved on……

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