A delightful, yet whirlwind visit to the Reno campus of the University of Nevada included a talk hosted by the Computer Science Department and two newspaper stories. This one is the university paper; the other was in the Gazette-Journal on the same day.  by Paul Mello Sagebrush Univ of Nevada – Reno  April 17, 1992 When…

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I simply love this article. The author’s combination of deep technical perspective and delightfully quirky sense of humor makes an ideal combination for discussing computerized bicycles in the pages of an information-dense industry trade journal. I’ve always looked at this as one of the BEHEMOTH’s journalistic highlights. A little more context on the Grey Poupon…

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This article was written by Kirk Kleinschmidt, NT0Z (long-time amateur-radio columnist and author of Stealth Amateur Radio). He met me on the road in Iowa, and wrote this decidedly atypical piece for the ARRL flagship journal… opening doors for the next two decades as I meet people on the air, mention my history, and hear: …

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One of my favorite sponsors during the whole bike epoch was Hewlett-Packard… beginning with the exquisite Portable and Portable PLUS computers during the Winnebiko and Winnebiko II adventures, then continuing with calculators, high-brightness LEDs, and test equipment in later years. Corvallis was thus always one of my favorite places to visit, and not just because…

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I passed through the Seattle area a few times long before I ever settled in the region to prepare my nautical escape pod… this trip had me speaking at the Seattle Bicycle Expo, Microsoft, Fluke, Sharp, and Hewlett-Packard all in the same week. (Here is a roster of public appearances during those crazy years.) I…

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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 piece in the Santa Cruz Sentinel was published during the intense BEHEMOTH epoch, while I was still in the lab at Sun Microsystems. Anywhere can be home in the age of instant communications by Peggy R. Townsend Santa Cruz Sentinel February 15, 1992 Steven Roberts’ bike stands In a windowless gray office in the…

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I brought BEHEMOTH to the San Diego Electronics show, where there was a wave of local media coverage (including this TV footage), and existing local connection with one of my favorite companies, Qualcomm. Here is a bit in the weekly business newspaper. But can he pop a wheelie on it? by Bob Mazzeo San Diego…

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During my speaking tour with BEHEMOTH (after the actual trip ended and just before starting the Microship project), I exhibited at the San Diego Electronics Show. One of my favorite sponsors was also in town (Qualcomm) and I made a few contacts at Scripps Institution of Oceanography that later led to 2 years at UCSD……

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This Doctor Tomorrow column was written during the final phase of my time in the Bikelab at Sun Microsystems, and is a lovely take on the implications of the technology that was being packed ever more densely into the BEHEMOTH bicycle. The photo was taken by Maggie Victor against a wall at Sun, and this…

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