In January, 1992, I spent a week in Southern California to exhibit BEHEMOTH at the San Diego Electronics Show. The visit included a flurry of local media coverage, but the best part was visiting Qualcomm… which had created the bike’s OmniTRACS satellite email terminal (including custom tools to stitch it between the console Macintosh and…

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This is a work-in-progress moment with BEHEMOTH, during the Bikelab epoch at Sun Microsystems. The original Zzipper fairing is still on the console (not the custom fiberglass one), and systems were still being built. I was creating all the bike documentation with OrCAD, which I absolutely adored… I still treasure the binder with drawings at…

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This was a local event for me during the Bikelab era — I rode the bike over to Ming’s Villa restaurant in Palo Alto and gave a talk for a group of Macintosh-literate business folk. Notables of the evening included Stewart Alsop (discussing the upgrade to System 7.0) and Chris Espinoza of Apple. This took…

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This was a variation in my usual public appearance with the bike… a Friday night program for the general public and a detailed Saturday presentation for geeks. I had been based in the Santa Cruz area for a year or so, working on BEHEMOTH in a rented house up in the hills outside Soquel, and…

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Pacific Packet Radio Society meeting - May 1989 - speaker announcement

This epoch of the BEHEMOTH project included obsessive involvement in packet radio, and I spoke at a meeting of interesting people… PPRS Meeting Announcement PPRS meets the first Tuesday of the month at the Ampex Cafeteria located at 411 Broadway, Redwood City. The May meeting is on the 2nd and the speaker will be Steve…

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers Mt. Diablo Section Home, Home on the Road, with Steve Roberts(High-Tech Nomad) and his Winnebiko Presented by Steve Roberts, Author, Computing Across America Question: What has five computers, 54 speeds, a cellular phone with modem, a ham radio station, a motion-sensitive security system, speech synthesis, 5 solar panels, hydraulic and…

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This brings back fond memories. I loved HSC, and it was always the first go-to resource for the kinds of Silicon Valley treasures that made the BEHEMOTH project possible. They soon became a sponsor, and over the years I would drop by, load up my cart with goodies, catch the old surplus buzz, run into…

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Computing Across America presentation by Steven K. Roberts March 18-19, 1989 First, here is a 3-minute clip of the Channel 7 News (KGO-TV, San Francisco), showing the Winnebiko II and pulling back to comment on how the Faire has changed over the years… with comments on the Apple vs Microsoft “Look and Feel” lawsuit that…

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This is a little video treasure from the beginning of the BEHEMOTH project (while I was still calling it Winnebiko III). I had the amazing opportunity to present the bike to a room full of brilliant geeks at Xerox PARC… a relaxed setting, with people sprawled in beanbag chairs. It was captured on VHS by the folks…

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