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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Filmed near Milpitas, California NHK March 24, 1989 (aired in June) This segment was part of a larger show that focused on emerging network communications, during a time when there was just beginning to be a transition between isolated online services and the then-embryonic Internet. I had recently completed the second phase of the bicycle…

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This is a little video treasure from the beginning of the BEHEMOTH project (while I was still calling it Winnebiko III). I had the amazing opportunity to present the bike to a room full of brilliant geeks at Xerox PARC… a relaxed setting, with people sprawled in beanbag chairs. It was captured on VHS by the folks…

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In 1989 I was diving full time into the “Winnebiko III” project, which would soon be named BEHEMOTH. I had wrapped up 16,000 miles on the earlier versions, as well as a year of wandering the US in an old school bus to promote the Computing Across America book. At this point, I was actively…

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This CNN piece is from a time when I had wrapped up the Winnebiko II adventure, and was embarking on a random speaking tour via a converted school bus. The Computing Across America book was finally published, and I was starting to think about the third bike version (the one that would come to be…

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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…

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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…

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Including a video of our appearance on The Spectacular World of Guinness Records… by Steven K. Roberts July 22, 1987 Columbus, Ohio 12,497 miles I can’t believe I used to live here. I pass my old Dublin house with a twinge of embarrassment; I shake my head sadly at the “growth” that frantically replaces cool…

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This was filmed in Palo Alto, after we made our trek down the Pacific Coast. The bike version is the Winnebiko II, still before the trailer or cellular phone.

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This short video shows the launch of the second phase of my bicycle travels, a sequel to the 10,000-mile “Computing Across America” expedition that came to be known as “Miles with Maggie.” I was blogging (well, publishing online travel tales) on the GEnie network, and this journey covered 6,000 miles on both coasts of the…

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