This article in my home-town paper appeared just before we drove the van to Vancouver to display the shiny new Winnebiko II at Expo ’86, and has the distinction of being one of the most amusing titles in the entire collection of media binders.  by Tim Doulin Columbus Dispatch August 16, 1986 Steven Roberts does some…

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By DARLENE SLACK The Marion Star August 15, 1986 She calls it a success story. An opportunity to take life on firsthand. A chance to travel, meet people and write about her experiences. For Maggie Victor, it fills that need for a ‘‘sense of adventure” and a need to be happy at what she’s doing.…

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Just before taking off with the bikes in a “Van to Vancouver” to kick off the new adventure with an appearance at Expo ’86, we had a flurry of local media coverage in Columbus. We had spent the summer getting the bikes ready, focused largely on the new Winnebiko II console, and suddenly things were…

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This interview, found on an old audio cassette, took place just before we left Columbus to begin the second phase of the adventure with an appearance at Expo 86 in Vancouver. It was a frantic and intense time, focused on building the Winnebiko II console, but Tom Locicero was an excellent interviewer and we found…

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Just as I was about to hit the road (driving the van to Vancouver for Expo 86), there was a small flurry of media coverage announcing the start of the second trip in the Computing Across America adventure. During the first trip, I had written a regular column in USA Today, so it was nice…

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This is an account of my talk at the 1986 National Online Meeting in New York City, including discussion of electronic publishing, the upcoming Winnebiko II, and resumption of my computerized recumbent bicycle travels around the US. The publisher was a significant force in the early epoch of online information retrieval; this article was prepared by…

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Packet Radio was a huge part of the second bike version; at a time before the Internet and cellular phones, it was amazing to have a way to wirelessly communicate with text. This was a subculture of the amateur radio community, and this special-interest publication picked up the story of my geeked-out bicycle. The console…

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