Media – Winnebiko II
Computing Across America – Louisville WHAS11 Bernson’s Corner
Barry Bernson has personified the human-interest class of news in Louisville since 1971, and his stories were always a pleasure to watch. During a return visit to Jeffersontown to visit my parents, I had the pleasure of doing an interview with him. This VHS recording was on top of the TV when I returned sadly…
Read MorePedaling takes back seat with high-tech cycle – Greensboro
by Nancy Feigenbaum Greensboro News & Record April 2, 1988 Ask Steve Roberts how fast he can go on his 8-foot-long recumbent bike. “I can hit about 30 words a minute.” It’s all in the knee-high handlebars under the seat. Roberts has equipped them with eight typewriter-like keys he uses to control the two computers in…
Read MoreHigh Trek – Charlotte
This visit to Hand Held Products was the beginning of a consulting relationship that segued into an interesting friendship. It was one of the rare instances of “technology transfer” from the bike project (packet radio), and it was fun to make a small contribution to new product development. I had a piece in the same paper…
Read MoreWinnebiko at Hamcation – Orlando Sentinel
This was the local news coverage when I had the Winnebiko II at the Orlando Hamcation in 1988. The delightful poster above was behind the bike in my booth, and was a relic of the Huffy Radiobike produced in 1955-56. Writer at home on “Winnebiko” by Janita Poe Orlando Sentinel March 20, 1988 Nomadic executive wanders…
Read MoreHigh-tech biker odyssey – Tallahassee Democrat
Cruising highways on bicycle of future by Linda Guggino, staff writer Tallahassee Democrat March 16, 1988 It was a chilly 48 degrees at noon outside the Florida Department of Transportation on Tuesday when Steve Roberts, wearing gym shorts and a T-shirt, rolled up on his $75,000 bicycle. A score of bundled-up onlookers who had heard about…
Read MoreNomad Wheels in on High-Tech Vehicle – Florida Flambeau
by Lisa Photos Florida Flambeau March 16, 1988 Steve Roberts can type up to 30 words a minute while riding his bicycle up to 50 miles per hour. In fact, Roberts — who has a complex computer system rigged up in a sort of cockpit at the front of the unique bike — has whipped up…
Read MoreWKIS Radio interview – Computer Connection
While we were in Orlando via school bus to display our bikes at the 1988 Hamcation (amateur radio convention), Maggie and I were interviewed by Leslie Brewington for a program called “The Computer Connection” on WKIS Newstalk 74. An old cassette of this emerged from the vaults in 2020, and was digitized for this archive.
Read MoreHacker’s Odyssey Takes Him to Keys – Miami Herald
By JAMES F. CARNEY Miami Herald March 3, 1988 A high-tech nomad pedaled into town last weekend. A self-taught computer wiz riding a self-designed contraption that only just resembles a bicycle, Steven Roberts is continuing a journey that has taken him across 15,400 miles of America in search of good friends he has never met.…
Read MoreWinnebiko 2 in Guinness Book of World Records – video
This cute little video was filmed in mid-July 1987 during the International Jugglers Association festival in Akron, and the piece aired as the closing segment of Show #121 of the Spectacular World of Guinness Records on February 6, 1988. The presenter was Shawn Southwick, and the fellow in the studio was David Frost. The tale…
Read MoreSwell on Wheels – Florida Today
I am fond of this enthusiastic story, partly because of the photo above… Maggie and I spent a couple of months in a parking lot behind an old auto dealership in Titusville, converting that 1968 Chevy school bus into a mobile home and office with berths for both bikes, a king-size bed that could be…
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