Steven K. Roberts, N4RVE

@MaggieL @GingerLady6 @gingerlady Still at it! About to move Bionode into the new mobile lab.

@GingerLady6 How about it, @nomadness? @gingerlady is wondering...

@MaggieL @ShamashAran @prosqtor @alexthechick Hi Maggie! Sorry about that unfortunate lazy name-reuse... confusing!

@ShamashAran @prosqtor @alexthechick @nomadness I got some of my screen shots messed up. Shacktopus was originally conceived as a signal/compute nexus but turned into mostly a portable power-management system. microship.com/shacktopus-pow…

Rechargeable battery technology is such a boon in my life.

Love this recent interview with @GabeMarusca about my digital nomad history... youtu.be/eBih6bPc-Fw

@iamdavecook Hi Dave! It would be okay to choose something from my microship.com site... Just in the middle of moving to my new mobile lab, so not near my computer to send specific ones at the moment. Thanks, I look forward to seeing what you do!

@nomadness Hi Steve, I'm preparing some lectures on the history of digital nomads. And wanted to mention youself as a pioneer. Do you have any photos that I could have permsission to use?

Chapter 3 from the unpublished 1909 Great Loop voyage by Ralph M. Pearson... this one from Havana to Kampsville on the Illinois River. microship.com/1909-great-loo…

Some fun YouTubery just happened... I did an interview in September with Matt of @JaYoeLife and it is delightful. There's BEHEMOTH footage from 1992, technomadic chat, and some retro-media geekery from the Harbor Digitizing lab. youtu.be/IMCKbOis1ak

@N4UL I always find it amusing that "Truth" in Russian is Pravda, which was the name of the Soviet-era media voice.

1994 - An attempt to create a community of #digitalnomads, written during the first year of the Microship project. This was posted to my Technomads listserve and generated considerable discussion. microship.com/virtual-techno…

Some additions to the archives yesterday: 1986 schematics and other details from the Winnebiko II bicycle control processor, handlebar chord keyboard, and Model 100. microship.com/winnebiko-ii-c…

Nomadness docked in the Clarke Belt, slurpin' satellite feeds into the exabyte data store before heading over to Lagrange Point L1 to anchor for a while.

Trying to get 26 reel-to-reel audio tapes from my grandad converted and have been quoted $4800. Can anyone recommend good (cheaper) places or give me $4800?

@PaulDalgarno I'd have to see their length and whether or not they involve a lot of splicing, as well as the type of recording... but I can't imagine even a worst case scenario being more than half of that figure. Probably much less. Let me know if we can help.

@PaulDalgarno Yes much cheaper. I use a Otari MX 5050 at Harbor Digitizing... please feel free to DM me.

Thank you so much everyone, I just hit 500 subscribers on @YouTube! #500subs youtube.com/c/microship

1979: From the standpoint of the user, little has changed. He is still connected to the utility pole through a meter, and still receives monthly billings. But now, the meter can run in either direction, alternately debiting and crediting his account. microship.com/solar-power-ne…

I've always been fond of this article, written 29 years ago, anticipating the emergence of online-centered lifestyles... written when the Internet was gradually incorporating competing commercial services and eliminating artificial borders. microship.com/technomadness-…

The world has just changed. It has been an odd sort of revolution: many don’t even realize it happened, while others have had their lives redefined so dramatically that the time Before Networking seems as primitive as the Dark Ages. (1994) microship.com/electronic-tra…

When I started this post, I envisioned it as a dozen quick photo/captions; I didn’t expect an all-day voyage along a lifetime, threaded together by glimpses of 19-inch rackmount consoles and held together by 10-32 screws. microship.com/consoles/

I just had a bit of local publicity here in the San Juan Islands this week. "It’s like using surgical tools to get at people’s memories, their emotional metadata" microship.com/wizard-with-a-…