I just love the tone of this… the author doesn’t take me too seriously, and has wonderful fun with the story. It was written while I was in Soquel (near Santa Cruz), working on the bike in a lashed-up combination of workspaces that included a garage and my old school bus…  by Andrew Brown The…

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by John Przybys Las Vegas Review-Journal November 26, 1989 Like any wanderlust-stricken traveler, Steven Roberts meanders along the highways and byways of America carrying with him all of the equipment he needs. He’s got a tent. He’s got a sleeping bag. He’s got a portable stove. He’s got a recumbent bicycle with seven computers, a ham…

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Around the time the Winnebiko II was starting to give way to the Winnebiko III… before it was even called BEHEMOTH, I landed in Silicon Valley and began getting to know some of my online correspondents. One particularly interesting new friend from that epoch was Daniel Burdick, also a geek obsessed with recumbent bicycles. He…

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For years I have been storing a small collection of media dubs in the professional U-matic 3/4″ format, and this 2-minute news story from July 23, 1989 was the first test of my new digitizing system. Maggie and I were renting a house in Milpitas with our friend David Berkstresser to start the BEHEMOTH project,…

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They Call Him the Wanderer - Marketing Computers July 1989

Another little trade-journal snippet from early in the BEHEMOTH project (I was still calling it the Winnebiko III). by Tara Buckley Marketing Computers July, 1989 High-tech nomads are few and far between. To be one, a person must endure a grueling travel schedule and do without the comforts of home. Steven K. Roberts does both.…

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by Trudy E. Bell IEEE Spectrum Japan June, 1989 This covers work-in-progress on BEHEMOTH from a time just before moving to Santa Cruz. It is a translation of this article by Trudy Bell in the IEEE Institute of March, 1989.

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