Media – BEHEMOTH
Cyclogical Warfare – Economist
This article appeared as BEHEMOTH was being feverishly readied for departure from the Bikelab hosted by Sun Microsystems. A couple of the mentioned items were not completed by launch time (the shocker to the seat and the variable-reluctance motor-generator that I was planning to use for regenerative braking), but this is a pretty level-headed magazine…
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Happy Trails of a Rolling Computer Nomad – Compute Magazine
Compute! was published from 1979 through 1994, covering all platforms until becoming a PC-only publication in 1988. The link at the beginning of that sentence will take you to a much more substantial history of the magazine, including full text of many articles. I was saddened to learn just now that the author of this…
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BEHEMOTH on KTEH Silicon Valley Report
During the heyday of BEHEMOTH, taking off from Silicon Valley in 1991 after an intense 3-year project, I made some interesting media contacts in addition to my own publication projects. I never actually filed any reports from the field for this new series produced John Crump, though we did do an excellent and thoughtful interview…
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Nomadness in Factsheet Five 39
Factsheet Five was a marvelous publication, tracking the dynamic ‘zine scene back in the Olden Days. Mike Gunderloy published this labor of love, and it was an honor to be in it. He enjoyed the Nomadness journal, and in his Issue #39 he posted this little piece about my Issue #9 (the cover of which is…
Read MoreVideo: the Bicycle, a Celebration of the Invention
This film, produced at the BBC by David Taylor and Famous Cycling Videos, aired sometime in early 1991… but the filming caught me in the summer of 1990, working on the bike in Soquel (near Santa Cruz) before moving over to the Bikelab in Silicon Valley. I was sharing a rental house with friends, and…
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BEHEMOTH on Beyond 2000
This was filmed in Los Angeles, and aired in Australia in August 1990 (then a year later on the Discovery Channel in the US). BEHEMOTH was yet in the very early stages of construction, with lots of things uncabled or temporary… but it was a fun and rare video look at the bike in the…
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Nomadness – ComputerLand Magazine
This was the magazine associated with the giant ComputerLand retail chain from 1987 until sometime in the early ’90s; issues are rare. The article itself is a quick look at the state of BEHEMOTH in mid-1990, when I was working on it in the Bikelab at Sun Microsystems. I chuckle now, over two decades later,…
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High-Tech Biker Hits the Road – Good Times
The first year or so of the BEHEMOTH project was in Santa Cruz, and in early 1990 I had lab space at Borland International. The photo above is on that street in Scotts Valley. This is a local free publication, lively and fun, and it was nice to have the new version of the bike…
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Out West and Journal of High-Tech Nomadness
This just delights me… Out West was published by Chuck Woodbury from his motorhome, and every issue was a treat… a substantial collection of quirky vignettes, profiles, discoveries of small-town wonders, entertaining tales, and folksy humor. I was a subscriber for years, and was thrilled when he published this little mini-review of my own zine,…
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Have Mac, will travel – by bicycle… MacWeek
The decision to use a Macintosh Portable in the console of BEHEMOTH was significant, and led to a very interesting bicycle-mobile work environment (with handlebar keyboard and ultrasonic head mouse, both mapped to the Apple Desktop Bus) than would have otherwise been the case. Apple donated the machine, and the Mac-related press loved it. MacWeek…
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