From: tedk@gagme.chi.il.us (Ted G. Kekatos)
Subject: REPOST - Steve Roberts NEWSLETTER - FYI
Originator: tedk@gagme
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:58:07 GMT

REPOST - Steve Roberts NEWSLETTER - FYI

Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 10:38:36 PDT
From: Steve.Roberts@Corp.Sun.COM (Steven K. Roberts)
Subject: BEHEMOTH files and GIFs; brief update

Hi....

It is now one week from departure in the mothership, and I'm spending
all avaiable resources on this move into a mobile bikelab which shall
serve as a nomadic substrate for nomadics.  Further details on all
this, and the latest bike developments, will be in the next issue of
Notes from the Bikelab (OK, OK, a teaser:  the control system is
getting smarter, now free of external umbilici; the bike Mac is linked
to the mothership Mac via Farallon's Timbuktu (magic!); the Trimble GPS
is alive and sending satellite nav fixes once a second into the bike
network; speech works; and mobile email is coming together, hopefully
in time for departure so we don't have a rerun of my last adventures...
returning exhausted to hundreds of messages).

Anyway, the main reason for this note is to tell you about the ftp
server that's been provided by Telebit (and maintained by David K. Z.
Harris -- zonker@napa.telebit.com if you have any questions).  This is
where to go (assuming you have live internet access and are not reading
this via a gateway, like on CIS or MCI) for all the bikelab archives,
stories from the road, overview documents, technomads alias archives,
and as of this morning, images of the bike.  Yes, I've *finally*
responded to all your requests for GIF files!  We can thank Howard
Greenfield's audiovisual group here at Sun for scanning four photos by
Maggie Victor and providing them in a useful format.

To get to all this, ftp to ftp.telebit.com and login as anonymous,
using your full mail address as a password.  CD to the /pub/nomad
directory.  The structure as set up by Zonker is as follows:

        /pub/nomad --+-- (  This directory will include the most recent
                     |    ) telemetry postings for about a 2-week span,
                     |   (  the current BikeLab Status Report and any
                     |    ) recent story from the road. It will also
                     |   (  hold the summary document, and any other
                     |    ) contributed files that are approved for
                     |   (  posting on this server (and that don't
                     |    ) need their own directory!).  Noteworthy here 
		     |   (  is the prospectus, describing the full project.
                     |
                     +-- /bikelab (  These are the BikeLab Status
                     |             ) Reports, and files relating to
                     |            (  the technical aspects of the
                     |             ) building of BEHEMOTH.
                     |
                     +-- /CAA2    (  Computing Across America II:
                     |             ) The tales of adventure that take
                     |            (  up where the Computing Across
                     |             ) America book left off...
                     |
                     +-- /images (  A place for pictures of, or from,
                     |            ) BEHEMOTH.  4 GIF files right now, but
                     |           (  other formats may creep in... I'm
		     |            ) adding still-video to the bike.
                     |
                     +-- /TNlist (  An archive of the traffic from the
                     |            ) Technomads Mailing list...
                     |
                     +-- /telemetry (  These will be digested telemetry
                     |               ) postings, and will cover 2-week
                     |              (  spans, starting on Sundays.  (Later)
                     |
                     +-- /road (  This directory will be the archive for
                                ) the stories from the road on the next
                               (  trip.
                                

Feel free to GET any of these files and repost them as desired, as long
as copyright notices remain intact.  

Thanks for your continuing interest in high-tech nomadics, and now that
I'm about to be mobile full-time, the odds of my wandering by for a visit,
on-site demo, or speaking gig have just been multiplied dramatically.
I will periodically post to this alias (either in a short special note or
as part of a Bikelab Report) my known itinerary, soliciting responses
from anyone along the route.  Socializing and visiting is what keeps me
going through the frenzy of biz!

Current travel plans:

	Move out of Sun lab April 14; speak at Idea '92 in San Jose
	Speak in Reno April 16
	Zoom to Dayton Hamfest; show bike April 24-26
	Visit Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Pittsburgh
	Visit Richmond to prepare for Interop
	Arrive Washington, DC May 17; stay all week at Interop
	Possible gigs back in Bay area in July; certain ones in October
	Possible Rochester, Austin, Dallas, and Denver visits in summer

I'm open to possibilities....

I'm currently having a real problem clearing my Mail Tool before departure,
so please don't reply to this note unless you have something very specific
to propose.  I have this bad habit of eventually answering all my mail,
and as you know, the internet makes it way too easy to receive massive 
volumes of it.  If it didn't so often contain real gems, that wouldn't be
such a problem.... ;-)

BTW, I think I mentioned this in Bikelab #15, but there's some current media
if you want bike pix that are higher resolution than scanned GIF images.
The April issues of QST and SunWorld have stories (the former with lots of
photos); and a front-page article is scheduled for the Wall Street Journal
shortly after April 15.

   Cheers from the road!
      Steve Roberts
      Nomadic Research Labs

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