Microship Status Reports

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California March 4, 1996 Hello from the Microship lab! The recent increase in forward momentum has continued unabated, and the Development Team Meeting/Party Rev 1.0 this past Saturday was a remarkable swirl of energy and interesting conversation. If I don’t watch out, this project will take…

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California February 26, 1996 The Shipnet Is Back Online… Since I’m poking my head up from three days of hacking to write this update, it’s fitting that I open with the status of the control network. It’s been a long time since my little suite of…

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California February 13, 1996 Development Team Forming… Hello from the Microship lab! This is a posting I’ve been looking forward to for quite a while, but it had to wait for the establishment of the new lab and a few basic tools. So now that we’re…

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California February 1, 1996 Nomadness Catch-up Hello, and welcome to the first combined issue of Nomadness and the Microship Status Report! The former has been folded into the latter, and for the first time in years I have but ONE mailing list to track (1,638 people,…

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California January 21, 1996 Spreading Her Wings This is starting to look like a shipyard! Last week, shortly after posting #93 of this series, I called John Marples in Port Orchard, WA (near Seattle) and asked him somewhat offhandedly if he’d like to fly down for…

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California January 14, 1996 Hello from the Microship lab, where attention has mercifully turned from moving and unpacking to project-related activities. In this quick update, we begin chipping away on many fronts at once… Macworld Expo First, this was MacWorld week, and spending a day there…

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California January 8, 1996 Lab Setup Complete! Ahhhhhh. This is the official close of a very long and frustrating chapter in the Microship project — the quest for and implementation of the lab. This all belongs in the overhead category, but it is so critical to…

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California December 25, 1995 (NOTE: This issue is being cross-posted to the invitation-only Microship Status mailing list for frequent technical updates and the technomads listserv… as well as being archived as usual on our web site. I rarely cross-post these, and humbly apologize to anyone receiving…

by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Colorado & Florida November 3, 1995 Hello from Colorado… Ahhh, lemme tellya — it feels GREAT to be moving! For a confirmed technomad, periods of limbo are maddening (albeit relaxing). After the UCSD lab shutdown, we spent two months in Del Mar catching up on publication projects, taking…

The UCSD Microship lab epoch has ended after 2 years, and in this report we embark on a sailing adventure to Catalina Island on Lonnie Gamble’s boat Harmony (above)… then return to focus on the new lab quest. The entire project is in limbo, but Faun and I manage to have a bit of fun. …